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TITLE:
WordPress Simple:Press Plugin Cross-Site Scripting and Security
Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40496

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=40496

RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-05

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Simple:Press plugin
for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass
certain security restrictions and by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.

1) The profile/ahah/sf-ahah-profile-save.php script does not properly
verify if "uid" parameter belongs to the current logged in user before
updating the profile. This can be exploited to update the profile of
another user.

2) Input passed via various parameters to multiple scripts is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user in the
sf_esc_int() function in library/sf-primitives.php. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 4.3.0. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.3.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mantis.simple-press.com/view.php?id=1470
http://mantis.simple-press.com/view.php?id=1504

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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