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Vigil@nce - WordPress BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request: SQL injection of friendship_request_message
July 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use a code injection via friendship_request_message
of WordPress BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request, in order to
read or alter data.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 03/07/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request plugin is used to send
personalized messages.
However, data from the "friendship_request_message" POST parameter
of wp-admin/admin-ajax.php are directly inserted in a generated
HTML page.
An attacker can therefore use a code injection via
friendship_request_message of WordPress BuddyPress Extended
Friendship Request, in order to read or alter data.
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