Vigil@nce - WordPress SecurityMoz Security Audit: code execution via unserialize
November 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can act as a Man-in-the-middle on WordPress
SecurityMoz Security Audit, in order to run code.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 07/09/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The SecurityMoz Security Audit plugin can be installed on
WordPress.
However, it downloads data via HTTP (no TLS), and injects them in
the unserialize() function.
An attacker can therefore act as a Man-in-the-middle on WordPress
SecurityMoz Security Audit, in order to run code.
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