PT-2018-9451 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2018-08-20 · CVE-2018-1000556

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 WordPress version 4.8 and later

Description The issue allows an attacker to perform client-side attacks, potentially resulting in cookie theft or code injection, through a crafted URL with a payload that exploits a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the delete function of plugins.php or core WordPress. This attack is exploitable when a victim opens the malicious link, leading to a reflected XSS attack.

Recommendations For WordPress version 4.8 and later, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000556

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 7

• 🔥 https://pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/04/28/reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-wp-statistics · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000556 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000556 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000556 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000556 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000556 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000556 · Note