Quick Post Widget <= 1.9.1 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting

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-2012-4226
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	August 10, 2012
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Stefan Schurtz

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Quick Post Widget plugin 1.9.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Title, (2) Content, or (3) New category field to wordpress/ or (4) query string to wordpress/.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	quick-post-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.9.1
Patched Version

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