SNS Vulnerability

WordPress WP Survey And Quiz Tool Plugin "rowcount" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WP Survey And Quiz Tool plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "rowcount" parameter to wp-content/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/javascript/question_form.php, wp-content/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/javascript/quiz_section.php, wp-content/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/javascript/shared_form.php, wp-content/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/javascript/survey_question.php, and wp-content/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/javascript/survey_section.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 confirmed in version 2.9.2. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP Survey And Quiz Tool Plugin 1.x

Solution

Update to version 2.9.3.

CVE

References

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&
new=534120%40wp-survey-and-quiz-tool&
old=526712%40wp-survey-and-quiz-tool

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

2012-04-23

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote