CVE-2019-7413 — In the Parallax Scroll (aka adamrob-parallax-scroll) plugin before 2

In the Parallax Scroll (aka adamrob-parallax-scroll) plugin before 2.1 for WordPress, includes/adamrob-parralax-shortcode.php allows XSS via the title text. ("parallax" has a spelling change within the PHP filename.)

01What is this vulnerability?

In the Parallax Scroll (aka adamrob-parallax-scroll) plugin before 2.1 for WordPress, includes/adamrob-parralax-shortcode.php allows XSS via the title text. ("parallax" has a spelling change within the PHP filename.)

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-02-05T18:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T20:46:46.301Z

09References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2024194/
• metamorfosec.com — https://metamorfosec.com/Files/Advisories/METS-2019-004-A_XSS_Vulnerability_in_P…