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Broken Link Checker, CVE-2019-16521

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2019-16521

Application

Broken Link Checker

Published on
Oct 16, 2019
Research Description
The broken-link-checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress (aka Broken Link Checker) is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_id=search request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product.
Affected versions
Min -, max 1.11.9.
Status
vulnerable