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CVE-2012-4226

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-09-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Quick Post Widget plugin 1.9.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Title, (2) Content, or (3) New category field to wordpress/ or (4) query string to wordpress/.

Affected products

• Qpw.Famvanakkeren Quick Post Widget: 1.9.1

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-08/0067.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/115463/WordPress-Quick-Post-Widget-1.9.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://www.darksecurity.de/advisories/2012/SSCHADV2012-016.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54311
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77731
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-08/0067.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/115463/WordPress-Quick-Post-Widget-1.9.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://www.darksecurity.de/advisories/2012/SSCHADV2012-016.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54311
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77731

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