SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Traffic Analyzer Plugin Two Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Traffic Analyzer plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via the "aoid" GET parameter to wp-content/plugins/trafficanalyzer/js/ta_loaded.js.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 context of an affected site.
This vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.3.2. Other versions may also be affected.
2) Input passed via the "ta_aoid" GET parameter to wp-content/plugins/trafficanalyzer/js/ta_live_init.js.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 context of an affected site.
This vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.4.1. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Traffic Analyzer Plugin 3.x

Solution

Update to version 3.4.2.

CVE

CVE-2013-3526

References

WordPress Traffic Analyzer Plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/trafficanalyzer/changelog/
Beni_Vanda:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/121167/WordPress-Traffic-Analyzer-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

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

2013-04-09

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote