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CVE-2015-9453

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The broken-link-manager plugin before 0.6.0 for WordPress has XSS via the HTTP Referer or User-Agent header to a URL that does not exist.

Affected products

• K-78 Broken Link Manager: before 0.6.0 — fixed in 0.6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: K-78 Broken Link Manager 0.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://cinu.pl/research/wp-plugins/mail_b677bb83a6c1495f85f76faa5b13011d.html
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-manager/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8333
• http://cinu.pl/research/wp-plugins/mail_b677bb83a6c1495f85f76faa5b13011d.html
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-manager/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8333

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