CVE-2011-5182

Lanoba Social Plugin vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lanoba-social-plugin/index.php in the Lanoba Social plugin 1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the action parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "Lanoba's plug in does sanitize user input, and because that input is never sent to the browser, an attacker has no way of executing script or code on a user's behalf.

Affected vendor

Wordpress

Affected product

Lanoba Social Plugin

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2012-09-20

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 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-5182

Confirm whether Wordpress Lanoba Social Plugin is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-5182.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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