WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Broken Link Checker <= 1.10.8 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

Description

Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in wordpress-admin-panel enabled by not proper sanitised HTTP headers.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
broken-link-checker
Fixed in 1.10.9

References

CVE
CVE-2015-5057

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.1 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Submitter
HSASec
Submitter website
https://www.hsasec.de
Submitter twitter
HSASec
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
a9b29997-69b8-418c-8884-5fe2977dde97

Timeline

Publicly Published
2015-06-29 (about 10 years ago)
Added
2015-06-29 (about 10 years ago)
Last Updated
2020-09-22 (about 5 years ago)

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2025-04-09
Title
Task Scheduler <= 1.6.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Published
2024-09-16
Title
Verbosa < 1.2.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Published
2022-07-11
Title
Event Timeline <= 1.1.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting