SNS Vulnerability

WordPress WP Symposium Plugin "uid" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in the WP Symposium plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "uid" parameter to wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/uploadify/get_profile_avatar.php 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 11.11.26. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP Symposium Plugin

Solution

Update to version 11.12.08.

CVE

CVE-2011-3841

References

Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-82/
WP Symposium:
http://www.wpsymposium.com/2011/12/v11-12-08/

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

2011-12-12

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote