PT-2019-7798 · Instalinker · Instalinker Plugin

Published 2019-09-20 · Updated 2019-09-20 · CVE-2016-11005

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 instalinker plugin versions prior to 1.1.2

Description The issue concerns a problem with the instalinker plugin, where the includes/instalinker-admin-preview.php endpoint is vulnerable to XSS attacks when the client id parameter is used.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.2, update to version 1.1.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the includes/instalinker-admin-preview.php endpoint until the update is applied. Avoid using the client id parameter in the affected endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-11005

Affected Products

Instalinker Plugin

References · 4

• 🔥 https://rastating.github.io/instalinker-reflected-xss-information-disclosure · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-11005 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-11005 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/instalinker/#developers · Note