VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2759

medium
Published 2012-05-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in login-with-ajax.php in the Login With Ajax (aka login-with-ajax) plugin before 3.0.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the callback parameter in a lostpassword action to wp-login.php.

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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax{"endIncluding":"3.0.4"}
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.1
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.1.1
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.1.2
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.1.3
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.1.4
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.1.5
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.2
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax2.21
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax3.0
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax3.0.1
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax3.0.2
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax3.0.3
netweblogiclogin_with_ajax3.0b
wordpress wordpresswordpress

References

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.