PT-2015-6973 · WordPress · Floating Social Bar

Published 2015-07-16 · Updated 2016-12-22 · CVE-2015-5528

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 Floating Social Bar plugin versions prior to 1.1.6

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. It affects the save order function in the class-floating-social-bar.php file. Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the items[] parameter in an "fsb save order" action to the "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" API endpoint.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.6, update to version 1.1.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" API endpoint for unauthenticated users until the update is applied. Avoid using the items[] parameter in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-5528

Affected Products

Floating Social Bar

References · 7

• 🔥 http://security.szurek.pl/floating-social-bar-115-xss.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132670/WordPress-Floating-Social-Bar-1.1.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5528 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/floating-social-bar/changelog · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5528 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/75944 · Note
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8098 · Note