Vulnerability CVE-2014-4664
Published: 2014-11-06

Description:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wordfence Security plugin before 5.1.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the whoisval parameter on the WordfenceWhois page to wp-admin/admin.php.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
WordPress Wordfence Firewall 5.1.2 Cross Site Scripting
Narendra Bhati
05.11.2014

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
Wordfence security project -> Wordfence security 

 References:
http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/word-press-firewall-plugin-xss/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533907/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70911
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70915
http://www.wordfence.com/blog/2014/06/security-fix-wordfence-5-1-4/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/changelog/
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