Arbitrary Code Injection via WHOIS Widget in WordPress Whois Search Plugin

CVE-2011-5193 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin 1.4.2.3 for WordPress, when the WHOIS widget is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5194.

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