CVE-2017-18565

MEDIUMNuclei

Updater by BestWebSoft < 1.35 - Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: github.com
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2017-18565 has a selected CVSS score of 6.1 (medium); EIP currently links 1 Nuclei template.

Description

The updater plugin before 1.35 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Nuclei templates
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Nuclei templates

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ProjectDiscoveryMEDIUMUpdater by BestWebSoft < 1.35 - Cross-Site ScriptingCVSS 6.1

The updater plugin before 1.35 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Impact

Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victims' browsers, potentially stealing session cookies, credentials, or performing actions on behalf of users.

Remediation

Update to version 1.35 or later.

WeaknessesCWE-79
Authorsluisfelipe146
Template tagscve2017cvewordpresswp-pluginxssbws-updaterwpscanauthenticatedbestwebsoftvuln
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CPE: cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:updater:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Shodan: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/updater/
FOFA: body=/wp-content/plugins/updater/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18565 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18565 https://wordpress.org/plugins/updater/#developers

Source: ProjectDiscovery

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