WP Smiley <= 1.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

2015-05-29 00:00

Henri Salo (fgeek)

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected Pluginwp-smiley

Affected Version<= 1.4.1

CVSS6.1Medium

CVECVE-2015-4140

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of editors for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the s4w-more parameter to the smilies4wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.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-2015-4140 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c12e6063-2db7-4f8b-a7c3-3e40bc9ff2a4

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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