What is CVE-2018-11580?

CVE-2018-11580 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Multidots Mass Pages\/posts Creator, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-05-31.

How severe is CVE-2018-11580?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-11580 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Multidots Mass Pages\/posts Creator

CVE-2018-11580

An issue was discovered in mass-pages-posts-creator.php in the MULTIDOTS Mass Pages/Posts Creator plugin 1.2.2 for WordPress. Any logged in user can launch Mass Pages/Posts creation with custom content. There is no nonce or user capability check, so anyone can launch a DoS attack against a site and create hundreds of thousands of posts with custom content.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (46.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Multidots Mass_pages\/posts_creator — versions 1.2.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11580?: CVE-2018-11580 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Multidots Mass Pages\/posts Creator, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-11580?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-11580 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.