PT-2015-4182 · WordPress · Shareaholic

Published 2015-04-14 · Updated 2015-04-15 · CVE-2014-9311

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.5

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Shareaholic plugin versions prior to 7.6.1.0 for WordPress

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. It allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the location[id] parameter in a shareaholic add location action to "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php".

Recommendations For Shareaholic plugin versions prior to 7.6.1.0, update to version 7.6.1.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" endpoint for untrusted users until the update is applied. Avoid using the location[id] parameter in the shareaholic add location action until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9311

Affected Products

Shareaholic

References · 6

• 🔥 http://security.szurek.pl/shareaholic-7603-xss.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/36674 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131321/WordPress-Shareaholic-7.6.0.3-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/changelog · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9311 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9311 · Note