Vulnerability CVE-2011-5194
Published: 2012-09-23

Description:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin before 1.4.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5193.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Phpace -> Samswhois 

 References:
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/482954/wordpress-whois-search
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72074
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51244
http://secunia.com/advisories/47428
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/108271/wpwhois-xss.txt
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