SNS Vulnerability

Gigya Socialize for WordPress Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Gigya Socialize (plugin for WordPress), which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing URL data, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site.
Various path disclosure issues have also been reported.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Gigya Socialize (plugin for WordPress) version 1.1.8 and prior

Solution

CVE

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Jun/57

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2010-06-07

Target Type

Client

Possible exploit

Local & Remote