Akismet Spam Protection < 2.0.2 - Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2007-2714
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published May 14, 2007
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher David Kierznowski
Description

The Akismet Spam Protection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the _wp_http_referer’ parameter in versions before 2.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug akismet (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.1
Patched Version
  • 2.0.2
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