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Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in MailPoet Newsletters plugin


From: Summer of Pwnage <lists () securify nl>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:27:57 +0200

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Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in MailPoet Newsletters
plugin
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Sipke Mellema, July 2016

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Abstract
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A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the MailPoet
Newsletters plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide
variety of actions, such as stealing Administrators' session tokens, or
performing arbitrary actions on their behalf. In order to exploit this
issue, the attacker has to lure/force a logged on WordPress
Administrator into opening a URL provided by an attacker.

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OVE ID
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OVE-20160721-0002

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Tested versions
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This issue was successfully tested on MailPoet Newsletters version
2.7.2.

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Fix
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This issue is resolved in MailPoet Newsletters version 2.7.3.

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Details
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https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/reflected_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_mailpoet_newsletters_plugin.html

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