Vigil@nce - WordPress: Cross Site Scripting of Social Media Widget
May 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting in Social Media
Widget of WordPress, in order to execute JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
– Impacted products: WordPress
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 17/04/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Social Media Widget module is used to group social network
profiles.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting in Social
Media Widget of WordPress, 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-Cross-Site-Scripting-of-Social-Media-Widget-12687