CVE-2012-2371

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in the WP-FaceThumb plugin 0.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pagination_wp_facethumb parameter.

Affected products

Mnt-Tech Wp-Facethumb: 0.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112658/WordPress-WP-FaceThumb-Gallery-0.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49143
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-facethumb-reflected-xss-vulnerability-cwe-79
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/16/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53497
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112658/WordPress-WP-FaceThumb-Gallery-0.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49143
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-facethumb-reflected-xss-vulnerability-cwe-79
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/16/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53497

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