Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-5107

Title: Wordpress Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-5107

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 23, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-5107: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in post_alert.php in Alert Before Your Post plugin, possibly 0.1.1 and earlier, for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 2

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520590/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50743 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71413 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520590/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50743 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71413

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-5107 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36323

View Code

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 23, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.