Vigil@nce - WordPress Advanced Post Type Ratings: Cross Site Scripting
January 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of WordPress
Advanced Post Type Ratings, in order to run JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 22/11/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Advanced Post Type Ratings plugin can be installed on
WordPress.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting of
WordPress Advanced Post Type Ratings, in order to run JavaScript
code in the context of the web site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Advanced-Post-Type-Ratings-Cross-Site-Scripting-24515