24 Mar 2022

WPScan Issues Two CVE IDs for Same Vulnerability While Failing to Warn for 7 Months That It Was Unfixed

On August 9, 2021, a security update was released for the WordPress plugin Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator, which has 200,000+ installs. The changelog for that was:

Fix XSS security issue, reported by WPSpan.com. See https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ed9d26be-cc96-4274-a05b-0b7ad9d8cfd9?fbclid=IwAR2aRMXRjbGm9ppoI9tM-OHm26Q0ax4yt0MkcP5sp0-pz9D4eVIEHQwvG1Y [Read more]