CVE-2011-5194

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin before 1.4.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5193.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72074

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-whois-search/changelog/

http://secunia.com/advisories/47428

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-09-23

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0054