SB2017102611 - Cross-site scripting in User Login History for WordPress

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SB2017102611 - Cross-site scripting in User Login History for WordPress

Published: October 26, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB2017102611
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15867)

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the user-login-history plugin through 1.5.2 for WordPress when processing the (1) date_from, (2) date_to, (3) user_id, (4) username, (5) country_name, (6) browser, (7) operating_system, or (8) ip_address parameter to admin/partials/listing/listing.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References