WordPress Theme Morning Coffee 3.5 - 'index.php' Cross-Site Scripting

EDB-ID:

36186




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2011-09-30


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49878/info

The Morning Coffee theme for WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Morning Coffee theme prior to 3.6 are vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/wp/index.php/%22+%3E%3C/form%3E%3CScRiPt%3Exss=53851965%3C/ScRiPt%3E/t