FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.2.0.727 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2018-09-21 00:00
Janek Vind

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 7.2.1.727
Affected Plugin
FV Flowplayer Video Player
Affected Version
<= 7.2.0.727
CVSS
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the FV Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.2.0.727. 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 7.2.1.727; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2018, reported by Janek Vind.

Vulnerability Overview

The FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘fv_player_preview’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 7.2.0.727 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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')

FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.2.0.727 carries this weakness at fv_player_preview, and reaching it 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 FV Flowplayer Video Player the fix is 7.2.1.727: builds <= 7.2.0.727 are affected, anything from 7.2.1.727 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.2.1.727, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to FV Flowplayer Video Player: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: FV Flowplayer Video Player 7.2.1.727 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eb613de8-d298-471f-b585-2da3b5500f10

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