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Posted on 17 October 2011
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TITLE:
WordPress Flowplayer Plugin URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46346
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-16
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Flowplayer plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.
Input appended to the URL after
wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/view/frontend-head.php is
not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.2.4 and reported in
version 1.2.11. Prior versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.12 or later.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Flowplayer:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=413607%40fv-wordpress-flowplayer&old=409594%40fv-wordpress-flowplayer
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