FKIE_CVE-2013-6993

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-01-03 18:54 - Updated: 2026-04-29 01:13
Severity
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://wordpress.org/support/topic/ad-minister-06-security-vulnerability-notification-xss
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530540/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23187Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ad-minister-06-security-vulnerability-notification-xss
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530540/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23187Exploit
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ad-minister_project ad-minister *
ad-minister_project ad-minister 0.4.1
ad-minister_project ad-minister 0.4.2
ad-minister_project ad-minister 0.4.3
ad-minister_project ad-minister 0.4.4
ad-minister_project ad-minister 0.5
ad-minister_project ad-minister 0.5.2
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