Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons < 1.1.1.12 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2015-05-30 00:00
James Hooker

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.1.12
Affected Plugin
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Affected Version
<= 1.1.1.11
CVSS
6.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.1.11. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.1.12; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2015, reported by James Hooker.

Vulnerability Overview

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters in versions before 1.1.1.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers of low-privilege to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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 Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons <= 1.1.1.11 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 Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons the fix is 1.1.1.12: builds <= 1.1.1.11 are affected, anything from 1.1.1.12 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.1.12, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 1.1.1.12 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0d79ae1-e9e4-4798-aa29-519b80759be6

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