Compfight < 1.5 - Cross-Site Scrpting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2014-8622
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	July 10, 2014
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Claudio Viviani

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in compfight-search.php in the Compfight plugin 1.4 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search-value parameter.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	compfight (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 1.5
Patched Version	1.5

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