Secunia Security Advisory - MustLive has discovered a vulnerability in the WP-Cumulus plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
WordPress WP-Cumulus Plugin "tagcloud" Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37483
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/37483/
DESCRIPTION:
MustLive has discovered a vulnerability in the WP-Cumulus plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "tagcloug" parameter to
wp-content/plugins/wp-cumulus/tagcloud.swf (when "mode" is set to
"tags") 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 1.22. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.23.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
MustLive
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MustLive:
https://websecurity.com.ua/3665/
WP-Cumulus:
https://www.roytanck.com/2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue/
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