Floating Social Bar Plugin up to 1.1.5 on WordPress class-floating-social-bar.php save_order items[] cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Floating Social Bar Plugin up to 1.1.5 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. This affects the function save_order of the file class-floating-social-bar.php. The manipulation of the argument items[] leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-5528. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Floating Social Bar Plugin up to 1.1.5 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). This issue affects the function save_order of the file class-floating-social-bar.php. The manipulation of the argument items[] with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the save_order function in class-floating-social-bar.php in the Floating Social Bar plugin before 1.1.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the items[] parameter in an fsb_save_order action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

The weakness was disclosed 07/16/2015 by Kacper Szurek (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at wordpress.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-5528 since 07/16/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:class-floating-social-bar.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.1.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 75944†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Floating Social Bar Plugin 1.1.6

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 132670
Researcher: Kacper Szurek
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2015-5528 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-5528
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-76727
SecurityFocus: 75944 - WordPress Floating Social Bar Plugin CVE-2015-5528 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 07/17/2015 11:29
Updated: 06/03/2022 10:03
Changes: 07/17/2015 11:29 (51), 07/07/2017 17:14 (6), 06/03/2022 10:03 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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