Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2026
CVE-2012-20004
CVE-2012-20004
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.
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References
6- web.archive.org/web/20210213220043/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54330/infonvd
- github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/wp-knews-xss.yamlnvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/knews/nvd
- www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-knews-multilingual-newsletters-ff-parameter-cross-site-scripting-1-1-0nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37484nvd
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/k-news-wordpress-plugin-1.1.1-reflected-xss-via-fontpicker-index-php-ff-parameternvd
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