Better WP Security Plugin for WordPress Multiple XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73271

Synopsis

The remote web server hosts a web application that is affected by multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Description

The WordPress Better WP Security Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities :

- The application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the HTTP_USER_AGENT header. (CVE-2012-4263)

- The application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input to unspecified server variables. (CVE-2012-4264)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.2.5 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7161ccc7

https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/#changelog

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73271

File Name: wordpress_better_wp_security_mult_xss.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: remote

Published: 3/31/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:bit51:better-wp-security, cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress

Required KB Items: installed_sw/WordPress, www/PHP

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4263, CVE-2012-4264

BID: 53480

CWE: 20, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 74, 750, 751, 79, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990