WordPress Wordfence Plugin "email" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   MustLive has discovered a vulnerability in the Wordfence plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "email" POST parameter to e.g. index.php (when "_wfsf" is set to "unlockEmail") is not properly sanitised in wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceClass.php 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 3.3.5. Other versions may also affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Wordfence Plugin 3.x
     
Solution   Update to version 3.3.7.
     
CVE  
     
References   MustLive:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Oct/139
http://websecurity.com.ua/6106/
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data
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 - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data
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 - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data
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 - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
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 - 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 
2012-10-22 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote