CVE-2012-1068
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 the rc_ajax function in core.php in the WP-RecentComments plugin before 2.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the page parameter, related to AJAX paging.
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | {"endIncluding":"2.0.7"} | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 1.8 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 1.8.1 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 1.8.2 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0.1 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0.2 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0.3 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0.4 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0.5 | |
| mg12 | wp-recentcomments | 2.0.6 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | | |
References
- http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/416723/wp-recentcomments/trunk/core.php?old=316325&old_path=wp-recentcomments%2Ftrunk%2Fcore.php
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46141
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/changelog/
- http://www.osvdb.org/75635
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49734
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70003
- http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/416723/wp-recentcomments/trunk/core.php?old=316325&old_path=wp-recentcomments%2Ftrunk%2Fcore.php
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46141
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/changelog/
- http://www.osvdb.org/75635
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49734
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70003
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.