Skip to content
CVE Tracker
Back

CVE-2012-20004

K-news WordPress Plugin < 1.1.1 Reflected XSS via fontpicker index.php ff Parameter

Medium5.1EPSS 0.27%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
VulnCheck

Description

K-news plugin for WordPress before 1.1.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject script by supplying unsanitized input through the 'ff' parameter. Attackers can craft GET requests to /wp-content/plugins/knews/wysiwyg/fontpicker/index.php with malicious 'ff' values echoed into option tags to execute script and steal session cookies. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-20004, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
VulnCheckCNA (assigner)4.0Medium5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
VulnCheckCNA (assigner)3.1Medium6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVDNVD · Deferred4.0Medium5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

Loading the EPSS history…

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Carles Reverter · K-news

    • affected < 1.1.1

References (6)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

Record last updated .