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CVE-2011-0740

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0740 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the magpie/scripts/magpie_slashbox.php component of RSS Feed Reader 0.1 for WordPress, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rss_url parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting integrity (partial). While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pleer:rss_feed_reader:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-35261 · Jan 23, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0466 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 70644
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/43071
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64949
autosectools.com / Advisories/WordPress.RSS.Feed.Reader.for.WordPress.0.1_Reflected.Cross-site.Scripting_82.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/45997
Exploit