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WordPress Plugin: woo-advance-search: CVE-2018-11486: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

May 30, 2018

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Advance Search for WooCommerce plugin 1.0.9 and earlier for WordPress. This plugin is vulnerable to a stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. A non-authenticated user can save the plugin settings and inject malicious JavaScript code in the Custom CSS textarea field, which will be loaded on every site page.

Solution

woo-advance-search-plugin-cve-2018-11486

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11486
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/236dd639-7f05-4fe8-bb81-5d023ebe7962?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-3517
CVE-2018-11486
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-11486
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2018-3517

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