SB2019050501 - XSS in Travel Booking WordPress Theme for WordPress

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SB2019050501 - XSS in Travel Booking WordPress Theme for WordPress

Published: May 5, 2019 Updated: June 18, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019050501
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Reflected cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: N/A)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to weak security measures like no input & textarea fields data filtering. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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.

PoC: 

http://[host]/?s=[XSS]

2) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: N/A)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to weak security measures like no input & textarea fields data filtering. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit the website and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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