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Secunia Security Advisory 26563

Secunia Security Advisory 26563
Posted Aug 23, 2007
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - MustLive has discovered a vulnerability in the Pool theme for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory 26563

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TITLE:
WordPress Pool Theme URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26563

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26563/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Pool 1.x (theme for Wordpress)
http://secunia.com/product/15427/

DESCRIPTION:
MustLive has discovered a vulnerability in the Pool theme for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the URL through the WordPress installation's
index.php script to header.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 1.0.7. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
MustLive

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://websecurity.com.ua/1238/

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
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Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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