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CVE-2011-5193

LOW · CVSS 2.6EPSS 4.1%EU EUVD

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin 1.4.2.3 for WordPress, when the WHOIS widget is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5194.

Key facts

CVSS score
2.6 (v2.0)
Severity
LOW
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
EPSS score
4.1% (91th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2011-5093)
Published
September 23, 2012
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-5093 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • phpace / samswhois
  • phpace / samswhois
  • wordpress / wordpress

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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