XSS in Phpace Samswhois

CVE-2011-5193

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin 1.4.2.3 for WordPress, when the WHOIS widget is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5194.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.041 (90.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2011-5193: held from 0.041 to 0.041.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.041 · newest: 0.041 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2011-5193?
CVE-2011-5193 is a vulnerability in Phpace Samswhois, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2012-09-23.
Is CVE-2011-5193 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.