Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in the Bonus theme for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
WordPress Bonus Theme "s" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46713
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-04
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Bonus theme for WordPress,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "s" parameter in index.php is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
3spi0n
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/106558/ilyasinfo-xss.txt
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