Exploitation Summary
CVE-2015-1494 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV, InTheWild.io). EIP tracks 1 public exploit from researchers including NULLpOint7r.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a stored XSS vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Fancybox-for-WordPress (version 3.0.2). The vulnerability arises due to insufficient sanitization of user input in the 'mfbfw[padding]' parameter, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution.
Description
The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a stored XSS vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Fancybox-for-WordPress (version 3.0.2). The vulnerability arises due to insufficient sanitization of user input in the 'mfbfw[padding]' parameter, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution.