SecurityReason.com - Our Reason is

Security

	SecurityReason
IT News

Search

SecurityAlert Database

About SecurityAlert

ExploitAlert Database

SecurityReason Research

	WLB
WLB Database

Send to WLB

About WLB

	Services
Security Audit

Schedule

Prices of services

Contact

	RSS
SecurityReason IT News

SecurityAlert

World Laboratory of Bugtraq

ExploitAlert

Apache

PHP

	Corporate
Contact

About SecurityReason



	Note
If you have found a vulnerability, please send to our SecurityAlert Database : secalert()securityreason()com Also if you have new ( 0-day ) exploit, please send to our ExploitAlert Archive : exploit()securityreason()com

Home

SecurityAlert Database

Topic :

Wordpress default theme XSS (admin) and other problems

SecurityAlert : 2807

CVE : CVE-2007-3241

CVE : CVE-2007-3240

CVE : CVE-2007-3239

CVE : CVE-2007-3238

SecurityRisk : Low Security Risk Low

(About)

Remote Exploit : Yes

Local Exploit : No

Exploit Given : Yes

Credit : John Smith

Published : 19.06.2007

Affected Software :

Wordpress default theme

Advisory Text :

There is an XSS in the Wordpress default theme. Tested on WordPress version
2.2

Filename functions.php, line 387.
Code:

<form style="display: inline" method="post" name="hicolor"
id="hicolor" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>">

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is directly echoed to the user.

This problem can be exploited if the adminstrator is logged in.

Sample exploit URL.
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=functions.php&zmx"><scri
pt>alert(1)</script>

There are other XSS vulnerabilities in popular Wordpress themes.
More details on http://www.xssnews.com/

Feedback :

If you have additional information or notice any errors regarding this security advisory, please use contact form or email us at info()securityreason()com.

	Alert
Multiple Vendors libc/gdtoa printf(3) Array Overrun - 2009-05-30 SecurityReason realised new advisory about vulnerabilities libc/gdtoa...


	Apache
» Apache Tomcat RequestDispatcher directory traversal vulnerability

» Apache mod_dav / svn Remote Denial of Service Exploit

» Apache Tomcat Information disclosure

» Apache Tomcat User enumeration vulnerability with FORM authentication



	PHP
» PHP 5.2.9 curl safe_mode & open_basedir bypass

» PHP 5.2.6 SAPI php_getuid() overload

» PHP ZipArchive::extractTo() Directory Traversal Vulnerability

» PHP 5.2.6 dba_replace() destroying file