CVE-2013-6993 (GCVE-0-2013-6993)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-02 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:53
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Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Ad-minister plugin 0.6 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the key parameter in a delete action to wp-admin/tools.php.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2013-12-26 00:00
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