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Vigil@nce - WordPress SEO by Yoast: Cross Site Scripting of post-new.php
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting in post-new.php of
WordPress SEO by Yoast, in order to execute JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 15/06/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The SEO by Yoast plugin can be installed on WordPress.
However, it does not filter data via the "post_title" parameter in
the query string, before inserting them in generated HTML
documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting in
post-new.php of WordPress SEO by Yoast, 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-SEO-by-Yoast-Cross-Site-Scripting-of-post-new-php-17130
