CVE-2013-1409

medium
Published 2014-03-03 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CommentLuv plugin before 2.92.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _ajax_nonce parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38296 webapps php verified
High-Tech Bridge ยท 2013-02-06

WordPress Plugin CommentLuv - '_ajax_nonce' Cross-Site Scripting

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
commentluvcommentluv{"endIncluding":"2.92.3"}
commentluvcommentluv2.7
commentluvcommentluv2.71
commentluvcommentluv2.74
commentluvcommentluv2.76
commentluvcommentluv2.80
commentluvcommentluv2.81
commentluvcommentluv2.81.1
commentluvcommentluv2.81.2
commentluvcommentluv2.81.3
commentluvcommentluv2.81.4
commentluvcommentluv2.81.5
commentluvcommentluv2.81.6
commentluvcommentluv2.81.7
commentluvcommentluv2.81.8
commentluvcommentluv2.90.1
commentluvcommentluv2.90.3
commentluvcommentluv2.90.5
commentluvcommentluv2.90.6
commentluvcommentluv2.90.7
commentluvcommentluv2.90.8
commentluvcommentluv2.90.8.1
commentluvcommentluv2.90.8.2
commentluvcommentluv2.90.8.3
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.1
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.2
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.3
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.4
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.5
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.6
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.7
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.8
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.9
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.9.1
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.9.2
commentluvcommentluv2.90.9.9.3
commentluvcommentluv2.91
commentluvcommentluv2.91.1
commentluvcommentluv2.92
commentluvcommentluv2.92.1
commentluvcommentluv2.92.2
commentluvcommentluv2.761
commentluvcommentluv2.762
commentluvcommentluv2.763
commentluvcommentluv2.764
commentluvcommentluv2.765
commentluvcommentluv2.766
commentluvcommentluv2.767
commentluvcommentluv2.768
commentluvcommentluv2.769
commentluvcommentluv2.7691
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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.