CVE-2004-1559

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Wordpress 1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) redirect_to, text, popupurl, or popuptitle parameters to wp-login.php, (2) redirect_url parameter to admin-header.php, (3) popuptitle, popupurl, content, or post_title parameters to bookmarklet.php, (4) cat_ID parameter to categories.php, (5) s parameter to edit.php, or (6) s or mode parameter to edit-comments.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-24642 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Thomas Waldegger · 2004-09-28

WordPress Core 1.2 - 'admin-header.php?redirect_url' Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11268/info
 
It is reported that Wordpress is affected by various cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied URI input.
 
Wordpress 1.2 is reported vulnerable, however, other versions may be affected as well.

/admin-header.php?redirect=1&redirect_url=%22;alert(document.cookie)//

EDB-24643 webapps php verified

Thomas Waldegger · 2004-09-28

WordPress Core 1.2 - 'bookmarklet.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities