Toolset Types < 1.8.8 - Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.8.8
- Affected Version
<= 1.8.7.2- CVSS
- 7.2High
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Toolset Types WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.8.7.2. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2015.
Vulnerability Overview
The Toolset Types plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions before 1.8.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
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, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Toolset Types <= 1.8.7.2 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 Toolset Types the fix is 1.8.8: builds <= 1.8.7.2 are affected, anything from 1.8.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.8.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Toolset Types: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Toolset Types 1.8.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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