What is CVE-2015-9453?

CVE-2015-9453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in K-78 Broken Link Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-10-07.

How severe is CVE-2015-9453?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2015-9453 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in K-78 Broken Link Manager

CVE-2015-9453

The broken-link-manager plugin before 0.6.0 for WordPress has XSS via the HTTP Referer or User-Agent header to a URL that does not exist.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.015 (72.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

K-78 Broken_link_manager
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Product, x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9453?: CVE-2015-9453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in K-78 Broken Link Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2015-9453?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2015-9453 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.