WP Guestmap <= 1.8 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting

2014-07-04 00:00

Anant Shrivastava (anantshri)

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected Pluginwp-guestmap

Affected Version<= 1.8

CVSS6.1Medium

CVECVE-2014-4587

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Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the WP GuestMap plugin 1.8 and earlier for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) zl, (2) mt, or (3) dc parameter to guest-locator.php; the (4) zl, (5) mt, (6) activate, or (7) dc parameter to online-tracker.php; the (8) zl, (9) mt, or (10) dc parameter to stats-map.php; or the (11) zl, (12) mt, (13) activate, or (14) dc parameter to weather-map.php.

Technical Analysis

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. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4587 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/54560426-a9c9-4a60-9690-8e797e0e7e8d

CVSS Vector

6.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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