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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: dark-mode: CVE-2018-5652: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 12, 2018
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the dark-mode plugin 1.6 for WordPress. XSS exists via the wp-admin/profile.php dark_mode_end parameter.

Solution

dark-mode-plugin-cve-2018-5652
Title
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