PT-2014-8738 · WordPress · Wp Symposium

Published 2014-12-24 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-8809

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 Symposium plugin versions prior to 14.11

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This can be achieved via several parameters in different actions, including the text parameter in an "addComment" action to "ajax/profile functions.php", the compose text parameter in a "sendMail" action to "ajax/mail functions.php", the comment parameter in an "add comment" action to "ajax/lounge functions.php", or the name parameter in a "create album" action to "ajax/gallery functions.php".

Recommendations For WP Symposium plugin versions prior to 14.11, update to version 14.11 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8809

Affected Products

Wp Symposium

References · 4

• 🔥 http://security.szurek.pl/wp-symposium-1410-multiple-xss-and-sql-injection.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8809 · Security Note
• http://wpsymposium.com/release-information-for-v14-11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8809 · Note