Chocolate WP – Responsive Photography Theme (All Versions) - Denial of Service and Abuse of Functionality

2013-01-24 00:00
Eugene Dokukin

Vulnerability Overview

The Chocolate WP – Responsive Photography Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service and Abuse of Functionality in all versions. This is due to inclusion of a vulnerable version of TimThumb. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send users to other websites if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking a link in addition to causing a loss of functionality on the site.

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-20 (Improper Input Validation) The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

External References

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