CVE-2011-5182

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Published Sep 20, 2012 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 3.6% KEV · Not listed

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lanoba-social-plugin/index.php in the Lanoba Social plugin 1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the action parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "Lanoba's plug in does sanitize user input, and because that input is never sent to the browser, an attacker has no way of executing script or code on a user's behalf.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:lanoba_social_plugin:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

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Metrics

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Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 3.6% (3.604% probability within 30 days)

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520574/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520678/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50746
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71411
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lanoba-social-plugin-xss-vulnerabilities

History

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Subscriptions

Wordpress Lanoba Social Plugin Wordpress

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 12:30 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Sep 20, 2012, 10:00 AM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 12:30 AM
Reserved: Sep 19, 2012, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 11:36 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Sep 20, 2012, 10:55 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 11:36 PM

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