Vigil@nce - WordPress: Cross Site Scripting of Contextual Related Posts
May 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting in Contextual
Related Posts of WordPress, in order to execute JavaScript code in
the context of the web site.
– Impacted products: WordPress
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 13/05/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Contextual Related Posts plugin displays similar posts.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting in
Contextual Related Posts of WordPress, in order to execute
JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Cross-Site-Scripting-of-Contextual-Related-Posts-12778