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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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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