#wordpress

Malicious actors can gain unauthorized access to users' online accounts via a new technique called "account pre-hijacking," new research has found. The attack takes aim at the account creation process that's ubiquitous in websites and other online platforms, enabling an adversary to perform a set of actions before an unsuspecting victim creates an account in a target service. The study was led

Diary Management System v1.0 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the Name parameter in search-result.php.

Hairy MitM exploit independently discovered by two security researchers

The Curtain WordPress plugin through 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

The Check & Log Email WordPress plugin before 1.0.6 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The Sliderby10Web WordPress plugin before 1.2.52 does not properly sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high-privileged users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

The Tabs WordPress plugin before 2.2.8 does not sanitise and escape Tab descriptions, which could allow high privileged users with a role as low as editor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

The Donate Extra WordPress plugin through 2.02 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected cross-Site Scripting

The Gwyn's Imagemap Selector WordPress plugin through 0.3.3 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in attributes, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

The Domain Replace WordPress plugin through 1.3.8 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting