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Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Top 10 - Popular posts plugin for WordPress


From: Summer of Pwnage <lists () securify nl>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:38:24 +0200

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Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Top 10 - Popular posts plugin for
WordPress
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Yorick Koster, July 2016

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Abstract
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A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Top 10 - Popular
posts WordPress 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 malicious website.

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OVE ID
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OVE-20160712-0017

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Tested versions
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This issue was successfully tested on Top 10 - Popular posts plugin for
WordPress WordPress Plugin version 2.3.0.

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Fix
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This issue is resolved in Top 10 version 2.3.1.

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Details
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https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_top_10___popular_posts_plugin_for_wordpress.html

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