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GHSA-44CC-C4HQ-R7VV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:06 – Updated: 2025-04-12 12:45

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The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.

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CVE-2015-1494 (GCVE-0-2015-1494)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:47

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

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	https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2	x_refsource_MISC
	http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
	http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fa…	x_refsource_MISC

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GHSA-44CC-C4HQ-R7VV

CVE-2015-1494 (GCVE-0-2015-1494)

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