Wordpress Edit.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	13664
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 17 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	May 17 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	Thomas Waldegger <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	WordPress WordPress 1.5
Not Vulnerable:	WordPress WordPress 1.5.1

Wordpress Edit.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Wordpress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Wordpress Edit.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept URI is available:
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=[XSS]&submit=Search

Wordpress Edit.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has addressed this issue in Wordpress version 1.5.1.


WordPress WordPress 1.5

• WordPress WordPress Latest Release Download
  http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Wordpress Edit.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• WordPress 1.5.1 Development (WordPress)
  
• WordPress Homepage (WordPress)