------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in MailPoet Newsletters plugin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sipke Mellema, July 2016
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the MailPoet Newsletters plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing Administrators' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions on their behalf. In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a logged on WordPress Administrator into opening a URL provided by an attacker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVE ID ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVE-20160721-0002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tested versions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This issue was successfully tested on MailPoet Newsletters version 2.7.2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This issue is resolved in MailPoet Newsletters version 2.7.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Details ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/reflected_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_mailpoet_newsletters_plugin.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summer of Pwnage (https://sumofpwn.nl) is a Dutch community project. Its goal is to contribute to the security of popular, widely used OSS projects in a fun and educational way. _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
