WordPress Core <= 3.5.1 - Content-Spoofing Attacks

2013-06-21 00:00

Wan Ikram

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.5.2

Affected CoreWordPress 3.5

Affected Version<= 3.5.1

CVSS4.6Medium

CVECVE-2013-2204

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Vulnerability Overview

moxieplayer.as in Moxiecode moxieplayer, as used in the TinyMCE Media plugin in WordPress before 3.5.2 and other products, does not consider the presence of a # (pound sign) character during extraction of the QUERY_STRING, which allows remote attackers to pass arbitrary parameters to a Flash application, and conduct content-spoofing attacks, via a crafted string after a ? (question mark) character.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.5.2, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2204 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e42954c-1ae3-41ef-8dd3-16e5820aa36f

CVSS Vector

4.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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