Cross-site scripting in User Login History - CVE-2017-15867

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU19723

Cross-site scripting in User Login History - CVE-2017-15867

Published: August 2, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19723
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15867
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Er Faiyaz Alam
Affected software:
User Login History

Detailed vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the user-login-history plugin through 1.5.2 for WordPress when processing the (1) date_from, (2) date_to, (3) user_id, (4) username, (5) country_name, (6) browser, (7) operating_system, or (8) ip_address parameter to admin/partials/listing/listing.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-15867

Update to version 1.6.

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