CVE-2011-5107

Alert Before You Post vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

8.8%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in post_alert.php in Alert Before Your Post plugin, possibly 0.1.1 and earlier, for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.

Affected vendor

Wordpress

Affected product

Alert Before You Post

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2012-08-23

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 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-5107

Confirm whether Wordpress Alert Before You Post is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-5107.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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