Cross-Site Scripting in All In One WP Security & Firewall WordPress Plugin

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Cross-Site Scripting in All In One WP Security & Firewall WordPress
Plugin
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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 All In One WP
Security & Firewall 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-20160731-0003

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Tested versions
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These issues were successfully tested on the All In One WP Security &
Firewall WordPress Plugin version 4.1.4 - 4.1.9.

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Fix
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This issue has been addressed in All In One WP Security & Firewall
version 4.2.0.

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

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