CVE-2015-5057
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Wordpress admin panel when the Broken Link Checker plugin before 1.10.9 is installed.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| broken_link_checker_project | broken_link_checker | {"endIncluding":"1.10.8"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/25/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75421
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8064
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/25/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75421
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8064
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.