Ultimate Instagram Feed – WordPress Plugin < 1.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3
- Affected Plugin
- Ultimate Instagram Feed – WordPress Plugin
- Affected Version
< 1.3- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2017-16758
At a glance
CVE-2017-16758 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Ultimate Instagram Feed WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.3. 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 1.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2017, reported by Dimopoulos Elias.
Vulnerability Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/partials/uif-access-token-display.php in the Ultimate Instagram Feed plugin before 1.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "access_token" 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')
Ultimate Instagram Feed < 1.3 carries this weakness at access_token, 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 Ultimate Instagram Feed the fix is 1.3: builds < 1.3 are affected, anything from 1.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Ultimate Instagram Feed: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Ultimate Instagram Feed 1.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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External References
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