SNS Vulnerability

WordPress NextGEN Gallery Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via the "paged" GET parameter to admin/manage-images.php and admin/manage-galleries.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.
2) Input passed via the "currentID" POST parameter to admin/album.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.
3) Certain input related to "slideshow_link" and "piclens_link" variables in templates/upload_images.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.
4) Certain input related to the "thumbnail_link" variable in templates/slideshow/index.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.
5) Certain input related to file names in templates/upload_images.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 vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.66.17.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.0.66.17 or later.

CVE

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/changelog/

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 - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	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 - POST : javascript code found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	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 - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	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 - POST : 'script' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	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
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2014-09-22

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote