Description
The broken-link-checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress (aka Broken Link Checker) is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_id=search request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product.
Published: 2019-10-16
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7198 The broken-link-checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress (aka Broken Link Checker) is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_id=search request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:17:40.235Z

Reserved: 2019-09-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-16521

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-10-16T15:15:15.270

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:30:45.330

Link: CVE-2019-16521

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