PT-2019-7462 · WordPress · Modern Theme

Published 2019-10-23 · Updated 2019-10-28 · CVE-2015-9503

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Modern theme versions prior to 1.4.2

Description The issue concerns a cross-site scripting (XSS) problem. It affects the genericons/example.html anchor identifier in the Modern theme for WordPress.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4.2, update to version 1.4.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the genericons/example.html file until the update is applied.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-9503

Affected Products

Modern Theme

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9503 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/7607 · Telegram Post
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7986 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-9503 · Note