CVE-2015-2324

Photo Gallery by 10Web <= 1.2.12 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting

2015-03-13 00:00
Zhouyuan Yang

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.2.13
Affected Plugin
Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery
Affected Version
< 1.2.13
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2015-2324
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At a glance

CVE-2015-2324 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.2.13. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.13; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2015, reported by Zhouyuan Yang.

Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the filemanager in the Photo Gallery plugin before 1.2.13 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users with edit permission to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in Photo Gallery by 10Web < 1.2.13 takes any authenticated account. 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 by 10Web the fix is 1.2.13: builds < 1.2.13 are affected, anything from 1.2.13 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.13, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Photo Gallery by 10Web: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Photo Gallery by 10Web 1.2.13 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2324https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce8e5635-a343-40b4-838c-21b942af5242https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2324

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