Rockhoist Badges <= 1.2.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- wordpress plugin rockhoist-badges
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.2- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2017-6102
At a glance
CVE-2017-6102 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the wordpress plugin rockhoist-badges WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed March 2017, reported by Larry W. Cashdollar.
Vulnerability Overview
Persistent XSS in wordpress plugin rockhoist-badges v1.2.2 via badge description and title fields.
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 wordpress plugin rockhoist-badges <= 1.2.2 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for wordpress plugin rockhoist-badges yet, so installs running <= 1.2.2 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to wordpress plugin rockhoist-badges: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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