Simple Link Directory < 7.3.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 7.3.5
- Affected Plugin
- Simple Link Directory – AI Powered
- Affected Version
< 7.3.5- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2019-13463
At a glance
CVE-2019-13463 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Simple Link Directory WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 7.3.5. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 7.3.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2019.
Vulnerability Overview
An XSS vulnerability in qcopd-shortcode-generator.php in the Simple Link Directory plugin before 7.3.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, because esc_html is not called for the "echo get_the_title()" or "echo $term->name" statement.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Simple Link Directory < 7.3.5 carries this weakness at get_the_title(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Simple Link Directory the fix is 7.3.5: builds < 7.3.5 are affected, anything from 7.3.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 7.3.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Simple Link Directory: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Simple Link Directory 7.3.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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