SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Feedweb Plugin "wp_post_id" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Stefan Schurtz has discovered a vulnerability in the Feedweb plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "wp_post_id" GET parameter to wp-content/plugins/feedweb/widget_remove.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.8.8. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Feedweb Plugin 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.9.

CVE

References

Feedweb:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedweb/changelog/
Stefan Shurtz:
http://www.darksecurity.de/advisories/2013/SSCHADV2013-004.txt

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 'meta' 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 - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2013-04-03

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote