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TITLE:
WordPress KSES Library Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42755

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/42755/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=42755

RELEASE DATE:
2010-12-30

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in WordPress, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised in the KSES
library before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to
insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a
user's browser session in the context of an affected site when the
malicious data is being viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.0.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Mauro Gentile and Jon Cave (duck_).

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
WordPress:
http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/

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