Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.5
- Affected Plugin
- CampTix Event Ticketing
- Affected Version
< 1.5- CVSS
- 5.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2016-10763
At a glance
CVE-2016-10763 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the CampTix Event Ticketing WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2016, reported by thezawad.
Vulnerability Overview
The CampTix Event Ticketing plugin before 1.5 for WordPress allows XSS in the admin section via a ticket title or body.
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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in CampTix Event Ticketing < 1.5 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 CampTix Event Ticketing the fix is 1.5: builds < 1.5 are affected, anything from 1.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to CampTix Event Ticketing: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: CampTix Event Ticketing 1.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in CampTix Event Ticketing
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