WordPress Clickjacking

This advisory is the result of research into how clickjacking can be leveraged and is the first published clickjacking exploit against a popular web application to gain OS command execution. WordPress is a web application used to create a website or blog. The WordPress Admin panel can be clickjacked to install an arbitrary plugin from the WordPress plugin archive which leads to arbitrary PHP code installation and subsequently OS command execution. Versions of WordPress prior to 3.1.3 are vulnerable to clickjacking. WordPress has had clickjacking protection since May, 2011 with the release of version 3.1.3, however no specific threat or exploit has been published.