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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2014-125096

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Fancy Gallery Plugin 1.5.12 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file class.options.php of the component Options Page. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 1.5.13 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is fdf1f9e5a1ec738900f962e69c6fa4ec6055ed8d. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-225349 was assigned to this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published