WordPress GAlert Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	64589
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 19 2013 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 19 2013 12:00AM
Credit:	Dan Fosco
Vulnerable:	WordPress galert 3.1.5
Not Vulnerable:

WordPress GAlert Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities

WordPress GAlert Plugin is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit these issues to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

GAlert 3.1.5 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

WordPress GAlert Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities

Attackers can use a browser to exploit the SQL-injection issues. An attacker must trick a victim into following a malicious URI to exploit cross-site scripting issues.

WordPress GAlert Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

WordPress GAlert Plugin SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities

References:

• GAlert Plugin Homepage (galertplugin.com)