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Broken Link Checker <= 1.10.8 — Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2015-5057Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.10.9Update to 1.10.9 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Broken Link Checker broken-link-checker

  1. Affected< 1.10.9
  2. Patched in1.10.9

Update to 1.10.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.10.9. Version 1.10.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Broken Link Checker.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.10.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Broken Link Checker to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to HSASec.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Wordpress admin panel when the Broken Link Checker plugin before 1.10.9 is installed.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium5.5Authenticated (Editor+) Server-Side Request Forgery
≤2.4.14Update to 2.4.14.1
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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author URL / Link Log
≤2.4.13Update to 2.4.13.1
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Critical9.8Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
<2.4.12Update to 2.4.12
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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