WP Smiley <= 1.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to 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-2015-4140
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	May 29, 2015
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Henri Salo (fgeek)

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of editors for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the s4w-more parameter to the smilies4wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wp-smiley (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.4.1
Patched Version

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