CVE-2014-1888 (GCVE-0-2014-1888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-02-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:58
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the BuddyPress plugin before 1.9.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name field to groups/create/step/group-details. NOTE: this can be exploited without authentication by leveraging CVE-2014-1889.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2327 records in the last 180 days details
References
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http://secunia.com/advisories/56950 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://buddypress.org/2014/02/buddypress-1-9-2 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531049/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://osvdb.org/103307 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2014-02-13 00:00
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