SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Flowplayer Plugin URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Flowplayer plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input appended to the URL after wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/view/frontend-head.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.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.2.4 and reported in version 1.2.11. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Flowplayer Plugin 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.2.12 or later.

CVE

CVE-2011-4568

References

Flowplayer:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&
new=413607%40fv-wordpress-flowplayer&
old=409594%40fv-wordpress-flowplayer

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

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-10-07

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote