SNS Vulnerability

WordPress Comment Extra Fields Plugin swfupload Two Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the Comment Extra Fields plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to a bundled vulnerable version of swfupload.
For more information:
SA49651
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.7. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Comment Extra Fields Plugin 1.x

Solution

No official solution is currently available.

CVE

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/122625/WordPress-Comment-Extra-Fields-1.7-CSRF-XSS.html

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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2013-08-02

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote