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1 vulnerability found for K-news by Carles Reverter

CVE-2012-20004 (GCVE-0-2012-20004)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 20:31
Modified
2026-10-23 02:04
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
K-news plugin for WordPress before 1.1.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject script by supplying unsanitized input through the 'ff' parameter. Attackers can craft GET requests to /wp-content/plugins/knews/wysiwyg/fontpicker/index.php with malicious 'ff' values echoed into option tags to execute script and steal session cookies. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Carles Reverter K-news Version: 0   ≤
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