Vigil@nce - WordPress Simple Page Ordering: Cross Site Scripting of Sort by Order
September 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via a link to
request a sort in WordPress Simple Page Ordering, in order to
execute JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 25/08/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Simple Page Ordering 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 a
link to request a sort in WordPress Simple Page Ordering, in order
to execute JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
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