CVE-2012-1068 (GCVE-0-2012-1068)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-02-14 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rc_ajax function in core.php in the WP-RecentComments plugin before 2.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the page parameter, related to AJAX paging.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49734 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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| http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomm… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.osvdb.org/75635 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/46141 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2012-02-03 00:00
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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