Vigil@nce - WordPress MailPoet Newsletters: Cross Site Scripting
November 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of WordPress
MailPoet Newsletters, in order to run JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 12/09/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The MailPoet Newsletters 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 MailPoet Newsletters, in order to run JavaScript code in
the context of the web site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-MailPoet-Newsletters-Cross-Site-Scripting-20573