Bug 659299

Summary:	Wordpress: XSS when deleting a plugin
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gwync
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-09-14 22:41:42 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	659319, 668192
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-12-02 13:08:02 UTC

An improper input sanitization flaw was found in way Wordpress
performed plugin removal. A remote attacker, with Wordpress
administrator privilege, could use this flaw to conduct
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks (execute arbitrary HTML
or scripting code) via a specially-crafted plugin name, author
or directory path.

References:
[1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2

Upstream changeset:
[2] http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16373

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-12-02 14:25:20 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the wordpress package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 13 and 14.

Please fix.

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This issue affects the version of the wordpress package,
as present within EPEL-5 repository.

Please schedule and update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-12-02 14:42:37 UTC

CVE Request:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/1

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-12-02 14:45:10 UTC

Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 659319]