Cross-site scripting in WooCommerce - CVE-2016-10112
Published: January 4, 2017 / Updated: January 4, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU3221
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10112
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: WooCommerce
Affected software:
WooCommerce
WooCommerce
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability in WooCommerce WordPress plugin is caused by incorrect filtration of tax-rate table values passed in CSV format. A remote attacker can trick the victim to upload a specially crafted csv file and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in administrator’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.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10112
Update to version 2.6.9.