Earlier today we posted the details of a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the plugin Pretty Links (Lite) that was somewhat vaguely disclosed by Detectify about a month ago. Shortly after that had been disclosed the website WPCampus had included reference to that in their weekly spreadsheet of vulnerabilities in WordPress, though they pointed to information on a possible different reflected XSS vulnerability in the plugin. It isn’t clear if they were aware that was a different vulnerability than the one mentioned by Detectify (as that one involved the input “message”) or if they have notified the developer of that issue.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Pretty Links (Lite) not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

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