CVE-2011-5194
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin before 1.4.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5193.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/108271/wpwhois-xss.txt
- http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/482954/wordpress-whois-search
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47428
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-whois-search/changelog/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51244
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72074
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/108271/wpwhois-xss.txt
- http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/482954/wordpress-whois-search
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47428
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-whois-search/changelog/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51244
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72074
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.