PT-2008-5944 · WordPress · Wp Comment Remix

G30Rg3_X · Published 2008-10-24 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4733

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WP Comment Remix plugin versions prior to 1.4.4

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via several parameters, including replytotext, quotetext, originallypostedby, sep, maxtags, tagsep, tagheadersep, taglabel, and tagheaderlabel.

Recommendations For WP Comment Remix plugin versions prior to 1.4.4, update to version 1.4.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable parameters until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4733

Affected Products

Wp Comment Remix

References · 8

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/31750 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4733 · Security Note
• http://chxsecurity.org/advisories/adv-3-full.txt · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/497313/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4492 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4733 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45861 · Note