CVE-2011-0740

Rss Feed Reader vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

4.7%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in magpie/scripts/magpie_slashbox.php in RSS Feed Reader 0.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rss_url parameter.

Affected vendor

Pleer

Affected product

Rss Feed Reader

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2011-02-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-0740

Confirm whether Pleer Rss Feed Reader is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-0740.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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