CVE-2011-5194

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin before 1.4.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5193.

Affected products

Phpace Samswhois: through 1.4.2.3; 1.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/108271/wpwhois-xss.txt
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/482954/wordpress-whois-search
http://secunia.com/advisories/47428
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-whois-search/changelog/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51244
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72074
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/108271/wpwhois-xss.txt
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/482954/wordpress-whois-search
http://secunia.com/advisories/47428
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-whois-search/changelog/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51244
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72074

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