SNS Vulnerability

WordPress WP-RecentComments Plugin "page" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in the WP-RecentComments plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "page" parameter to index.php (when "action" is set to "rc-ajax") is not properly sanitised in wp-content/plugins/wp-recentcomments/core.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 reported in versions prior to 2.0.7.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP-RecentComments Plugin 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.0.7.

CVE

CVE-2012-1068

References

WP-RecentComments:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/416723/wp-recentcomments/trunk/core.php?old=316325&
old_path=wp-recentcomments%2Ftrunk%2Fcore.php

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

2011-09-22

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote