Vigil@nce - WordPress Social Share Buttons Social Pug: Cross Site Scripting
February 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of WordPress Social
Share Buttons Social Pug, in order to run JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 09/12/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Social Share Buttons Social Pug 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 Social Share Buttons Social Pug, in order to run
JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
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