WordPress Snazzy Archives Plugin "tagcloud" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   Henri Salo has discovered a vulnerability in the Snazzy Archives plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "tagcloud" parameter to wp-content/plugins/snazzy-archives/swf/tagcloud.swf (when "mode" is set to "tags") 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.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.7.1. Prior versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Snazzy Archives Plugin 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.7.2.
     
CVE  
     
References   Henri Salo:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/10/3
Snazzy Archives:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/snazzy-archives/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/680330/snazzy-archives
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
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 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-03-11 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote