PT-2019-7781 · WordPress · Leenkme Plugin

Shravan Kumar · Published 2019-09-17 · Updated 2019-09-17 · CVE-2016-10988

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 leenkme plugin versions prior to 2.6.0

Description The issue concerns stored XSS in the leenkme plugin for WordPress. It can be exploited via variables such as facebook message, facebook linkname, facebook caption, facebook description, default image, or wp http referer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.0, update to version 2.6.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the variables facebook message, facebook linkname, facebook caption, facebook description, default image, and wp http referer until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10988

Affected Products

Leenkme Plugin

References · 5

• 🔥 https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/16/4 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10988 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/leenkme/#developers · Note
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8457 · Note