Nextgen gallery 0.96 wordpress plugin XSS Vulnerability

2009-09-08 / 2009-09-09
Credit: Eduardo Neves
Risk: Low
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: CVE-2008-7175
CWE: CWE-79


CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: None

============================== XSS - Nextgen gallery 0.96 wordpress plugin ============================== Author: Eduardo Neves a.k.a _eth0_ Date: 07 june 2008 Site: webappsecurity.wordpress.com ????????????? APPLICATION : Nextgen gallery VERSION : <= 0.96 VENDOR : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ DOWNLOAD : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ ????????????? IMPACT: XSS, XSRF, etc?. ????????????? Descrition: This vulnerability can be explored writing in the descritption textbox a mailicous (or not) code link: http://[host]/[directory]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=nggallery-manage-galle ry&mode=edit&gid=[galleryID]&_wpnonce=0b3c0996ed In the description textbox write the text: <script>alert('xss');</script> And when the gallery was posted, user click in photo and the script was executed! -- |_|0|_| Serrano Neves - a.k.a eth0 |_|_|0| http://webappsecurity.wordpress.com |0|0|0| "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493182/100/0/threaded
http://osvdb.org/51428


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