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Vigil@nce - WordPress WP Mobile Detector : Cross Site Scripting via general[posts_per_page]
août 2016 par Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via the request
parameter general[posts_per_page] of WordPress WP Mobile Detector,
in order to run JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
Impacted products : WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity : 2/4.
Creation date : 23/06/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The WP Mobile Detector 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 via the
request parameter general[posts_per_page] of WordPress WP Mobile
Detector, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of the
web site.
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