Vigil@nce - WordPress Broken Link Checker: Cross Site Scripting
January 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of WordPress Broken
Link Checker, in order to execute JavaScript code in the context
of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 17/12/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The WordPress Broken Link Checker plugin checks if links are valid.
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 Broken Link Checker, 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-Broken-Link-Checker-Cross-Site-Scripting-13953