Vigil@nce - WordPress Rockhoist Badges: Cross Site Scripting via rh-badges.php
April 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via the page
"rh-badges.php" of WordPress Rockhoist Badges, in order to run
JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 22/02/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Rockhoist Badges plugin can be installed on WordPress.
However, it does not filter data received via the request
parameter "badge_ID" and processed in the page "via rh-badges.php"
before inserting them in generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting via the
page "rh-badges.php" of WordPress Rockhoist Badges, in order to
run JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
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