WordPress Dave's WordPress Live Search Plugin <= 4.8.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Low priority Mitigation unnecessary
<= 4.8.1Vulnerable version(s)
No official fix availableFixed version

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Risks

CVSS 5.9

5.9

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site.

CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.

Solutions

This security issue has a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited.

Details

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Timeline

Reported byProfile ImageYuki Haruma

21 Apr, 2023

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