PT-2019-15002

CVE-2019-17207

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Published

2019-10-18

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Updated

2019-10-21

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.4
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions broken-link-checker plugin version 1.11.8
Description A reflected XSS issue was found in the broken-link-checker plugin for WordPress. This allows unauthorized users to inject client-side JavaScript into an admin-only WordPress page via the s filter parameter in a search action on the wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links endpoint.
Recommendations For broken-link-checker plugin version 1.11.8, consider disabling access to the wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links endpoint until a patch is available, and avoid using the s filter parameter in search actions to minimize the risk of exploitation.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (\'Cross-site Scripting\')
Related identifiers
CVE-2019-17207
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