CVE-2015-1494 (GCVE-0-2015-1494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-02-17 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 04:47
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.
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