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medium 6.1

CVE-2013-5978 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in products.php in the Cart66 Lite plugin before 1.5.1.15 for WordPress allow remote at…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-5808

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in products.php in the Cart66 Lite plugin before 1.5.1.15 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Product name or (2) Price description fields via a request to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: This issue may only cross privilege boundaries if used in combination with CVE-2013-5977.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-28959)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-28959 WordPress Plugin Cart66 1.5.1.14 - Multiple Vulnerabilities webapps, 2013-10-14
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/123587/WordPress-Cart66-1.5.1.14-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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

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