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CVE-2013-0237 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Plupload.as in Moxiecode plupload before 1.5.5, as used in WordPress before 3.5.1 and other pro…

published 2013-07-08 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-0270

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Plupload.as in Moxiecode plupload before 1.5.5, as used in WordPress before 3.5.1 and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.5.1+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0237

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-0237 updated cvss 4.3

wordpress: XSS in the external Plupload library

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/moxiecode/plupload/commit/2d746ee9083c184f1234d8fed311e89bdd1b39e5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.