WordPress Plugin Alert Before Your Post - 'name' Cross-Site Scripting

EDB-ID:

36323


Author:

Am!r

Type:

webapps


Platform:

PHP

Date:

2011-11-21


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50743/info

Alert Before Your Post plugin 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. 

http://www.example.com/[path]/wp-content/plugins/alert-before-your-post/trunk/post_alert.php?name=[xss]