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CVE-2012-4226

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Quick Post Widget plugin 1.9.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Title, (2) Content, or (3) New category field to wordpress/ or (4) query string to wordpress/.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Qpw.famvanakkeren — Quick Post Widget

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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