CVE-2010-1186

WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery <= 1.5.1 - Cross-Site Scripting

2010-04-06 00:00
Core Security Technologies

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.5.2
Affected Plugin
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
Affected Version
< 1.5.2
CVSS
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2010-1186
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At a glance

CVE-2010-1186 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5.2. 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 1.5.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2010, reported by Core Security Technologies.

Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in xml/media-rss.php in the NextGEN Gallery plugin before 1.5.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the mode 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 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes < 1.5.2 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 Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes the fix is 1.5.2: builds < 1.5.2 are affected, anything from 1.5.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.5.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes 1.5.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1186https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22bf5b65-8ec4-477c-a6bd-c90b99f560a8https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1186

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