Secunia Security Advisory - David Kierznowski has reported some vulnerabilities in the WP-FeedStats plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
WP-FeedStats Plugin for WordPress Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26249
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26249/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
WP-FeedStats (plugin for WordPress) 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/14942/
DESCRIPTION:
David Kierznowski has reported some vulnerabilities in the
WP-FeedStats plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised
before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and
script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.4.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.
http://bueltge.de/wp-feedstats-de-plugin/171/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
David Kierznowski
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
bueltge.de:
http://bueltge.de/wp-feedstats-de-plugin/171/
David Kierznowski:
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news-260707/
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