What is CVE-2013-6342?

CVE-2013-6342 is a vulnerability in Tweet-Blender, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2013-11-22.

Is CVE-2013-6342 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Tweet-Blender

CVE-2013-6342

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Tweet Blender plugin before 4.0.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tb_tab_index parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2013-11-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (80.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Tweet-Blender — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0072.html (mailing-list, Exploit)
secunia.com/advisories/55780 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-blender/changelog (Patch)
www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23180 (Exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-6342?: CVE-2013-6342 is a vulnerability in Tweet-Blender, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2013-11-22.
Is CVE-2013-6342 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.