CVE-2013-6993

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Published 2014-01-03 · 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 the Ad-minister plugin 0.6 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the key parameter in a delete action to wp-admin/tools.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.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`{"endIncluding":"0.6"}`
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`0.4.1`
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`0.4.2`
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`0.4.3`
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`0.4.4`
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`0.5`
ad-minister_project	ad-minister	`0.5.2`
wordpress	wordpress	`-`

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.