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Vigil@nce - WordPress Incoming Links: Cross Site Scripting via Referer
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of WordPress
Incoming Links, in order to execute JavaScript code in the context
of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 01/06/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Incoming Links 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 Incoming Links, 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-Incoming-Links-Cross-Site-Scripting-via-Referer-17026
