CVE-2019-17207

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A reflected XSS vulnerability was found in includes/admin/table-printer.php in the broken-link-checker (aka Broken Link Checker) plugin 1.11.8 for WordPress. This allows unauthorized users to inject client-side JavaScript into an admin-only WordPress page via the wp-admin/tools.php?page=view-broken-links s_filter parameter in a search action.

Affected products

wpmudev Broken Link Checker: through 1.11.8

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154875/WordPress-Broken-Link-Checker-1.11.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/31
https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9917
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154875/WordPress-Broken-Link-Checker-1.11.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/31
https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9917

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