Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-5182

Title: Wordpress Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-5182

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Sep 20, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-5182: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lanoba-social-plugin/index.php in the Lanoba Social plugin 1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the action parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "Lanoba's plug in does sanitize user input, and because that input is never sent to the browser, an attacker has no way of executing script or code on a user's behalf.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 2

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520574/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520678/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50746 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71411 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lanoba-social-plugin-xss-vulnerabilities http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520574/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520678/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50746 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71411 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lanoba-social-plugin-xss-vulnerabilities

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-2011-5182 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36326

View Code

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 20, 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.