Vigil@nce - WordPress Akal Theme: Cross Site Scripting
October 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via Akal Theme of
WordPress, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of the
web site.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 23/08/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Akal theme can be installed on WordPress.
However, it does not filter received data in preview.php before
inserting them in generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting via Akal
Theme of WordPress, 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-Akal-Theme-Cross-Site-Scripting-20455