cve-2024-8981
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-01 02:33
Modified
2024-10-01 14:06
Summary
Broken Link Checker <= 2.4.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Impacted products
wpmudevBroken Link Checker
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