PT-2018-14332 · Onthegosystems · Wpml

Rahul Pratap Singh · Published 2018-10-08 · Updated 2018-11-23 · CVE-2018-18069

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WPML plugin versions prior to 3.6.4

Description The issue concerns an XSS vulnerability. It can be exploited via any locale file name parameter, such as locale file name en, in an authenticated theme-localization.php request to "wp-admin/admin.php".

Recommendations For WPML plugin versions prior to 3.6.4, update to version 3.6.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the theme-localization.php page in the wp-admin section until the update is applied. Avoid using the locale file name parameters in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-18069

Affected Products

Wpml

References · 3

• 🔥 https://0x62626262.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/sitepress-multilingual-cms-plugin-unauthenticated-stored-xss · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18069 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18069 · Security Note