vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: broken-link-checker: CVE-2019-16521: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Oct 15, 2019 | May 15, 2025 | May 15, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 15, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025
Description
The Broken Link Checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_idequal tosearch request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product.
Solution
broken-link-checker-plugin-cve-2019-16521
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