SNS Vulnerability

Wordpress Multiple Third Party Plugins Multiple Vulnerabilities

Description

(#Several vulnerabilities were reported in third-party plugins for Wordpress:#- WP Symposium Pro Social Network: cross-site scripting located in the "user_id" parameter#- Commentator: cross-site scripting located in the "provider" parameter of the "admin-ajax.php" web page#- TubePress: cross-site scripting located in the "name" parameter of the "popup.php" web page#- No External Links: open redirection located in the "goto.php" web page.##Proofs of concept are available.)

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress (WordPress) - 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, ..., 4.2.3, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.4, 4.4.1

Solution

Version 2.5.3 of Commentator fixes this vulnerability.

CVE

References

- SecList : WP Symposium Pro Social Network Plugin XSS Vulnerability
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jan/47
- SecList: CVE Request: Commentator WordPress Plugin 2.5.2 XSS Vulnerability
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/87
- PacketStorm : WordPress Tubepress 2 Cross Site Scripting
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135238/wptubepress-xss.txt
- PacketStorm : WordPress No External Links 2.6.3 / 2.7.1 Open Redirect
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135235/wpnel-redirect.txt

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 - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	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 - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	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
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

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2016-01-12

Target Type

Client

Possible exploit

Remote