Google Calendar Events Plugin for WordPress 'admin-ajax.php' XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79385

Synopsis

The remote web server hosts a PHP script that is affected by a cross- site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The version of the Google Calendar Events plugin for WordPress installed on the remote host fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'gce_feeds_ids' parameter of the 'admin-ajax.php' script before returning it to users. An attacker can use this to execute arbitrary script code within the context of the user's browser.

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or later.

See Also

http://philderksen.com/google-calendar-events-version-2/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/#changelog

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79385

File Name: wordpress_google_calendar_events_xss.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: remote

Published: 11/21/2014

Updated: 6/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress

Required KB Items: installed_sw/WordPress, www/PHP

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7138

BID: 70370

CWE: 20, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 74, 750, 751, 79, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990