SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Poll Plugin Multiple Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have discovered in the Wordpress Poll plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed via the "poll_name" and "poll_question" POST parameters to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (when "action" is set to "save_poll") is not properly sanitised before being stored and returned to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 33.5. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Poll 33.x

Solution

Update to version 33.6.

CVE

References

WordPress Poll:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cardoza-wordpress-poll/changelog/

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-10-25

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote