The last few days we have had a bit of traffic to our website from a page on the website of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), which aims to be “a list of common identifiers for publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities” and is “is sponsored by US-CERT in the office of Cybersecurity and Communications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security“. The page that traffic is coming from is for a claimed vulnerability in WordPress, described as follows:

WordPress version 4.8 + contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plugins.php or core wordpress on delete function that can result in An attacker can perform client side attacks which could be from stealing a cookie to code injection. This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker must craft an URL with payload and send to the user. Victim need to open the link to be affected by reflected XSS. . [Read more]