SNS Vulnerability

WordPress WP Contact Form DB Plugin "form" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Kacper Szurek has discovered a vulnerability in the WP Contact Form DB Plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "form" GET parameter to wp-admin/admin.php (when "page" is set to "CF7DBPluginShortCodeBuilder") 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 vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.8.19. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Contact Form DB Plugin 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.8.20.

CVE

CVE-2014-7139

References

Contact Form DB:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/changelog/
Kacper Szurek:
http://security.szurek.pl/contact-form-db-2819-reflected-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

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2015-01-15

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote