WHOIS <= 1.4.2.4 - 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-2011-5193
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	September 23, 2012
Last Updated	January 22, 2024

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin 1.4.2.3 for WordPress, when the WHOIS widget is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5194.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wordpress-whois-search (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.4.2.4
Patched Version

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