Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 0.1.7
- Affected Plugin
- Flexible Custom Post Type
- Affected Version
< 0.1.7- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2011-5106
At a glance
CVE-2011-5106 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Flexible Custom Post Type WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 0.1.7. 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 0.1.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2011, reported by Am!r.
Vulnerability Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in edit-post.php in the Flexible Custom Post Type plugin before 0.1.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter.
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 Flexible Custom Post Type < 0.1.7 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 Flexible Custom Post Type the fix is 0.1.7: builds < 0.1.7 are affected, anything from 0.1.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 0.1.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Flexible Custom Post Type: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Flexible Custom Post Type 0.1.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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