Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.8
- Affected Plugin
- Banner Effect Header
- Affected Version
< 1.2.8- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2015-1384
At a glance
CVE-2015-1384 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Banner Effect Header WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.2.8. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2015, reported by Onur Yilmaz.
Vulnerability Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Banner Effect Header plugin before 1.2.8 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the banner_effect_divid parameter in the BannerEffectOptions page to wp-admin/options-general.php.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Banner Effect Header < 1.2.8 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Banner Effect Header the fix is 1.2.8: builds < 1.2.8 are affected, anything from 1.2.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Banner Effect Header: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Banner Effect Header 1.2.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Banner Effect Header
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