Vigil@nce - WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall: Cross Site Scripting
May 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of WordPress
Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, in order to run
JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 23/03/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin can be
installed on WordPress.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting of
WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, in order
to run JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
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