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WordPress Plugin: instalinker: CVE-2016-11005: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 7, 2016
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The instalinker plugin before 1.1.2 for WordPress has includes/instalinker-admin-preview.php?client_idequal to XSS.

Solution

instalinker-plugin-cve-2016-11005
Title
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