Cross-site scripting in post highlights - CVE-2014-8087
Published: August 2, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19889
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8087
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the post highlights plugin before 2.6.1 for WordPress when processing txt parameter in a headline action to ajax/ph_save.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.
Affected software
post highlights
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8087
Update to version 2.6.1.
post highlights - update to 2.6.1