Introduction
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The vulnerability described in this security advisory was discovered by Wagner Elias on October 20th 2010 during the Bug Hunting Day at Conviso Labs.
Issue Description
Embedded Video is a WordPress Plugin created by Jovel Stefan to easily embedded videos in blog posts. The videos can be uploaded to the web server or come from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and others) and links to the video on the video portal or for download of the video can be automatically generated as well.
The plugin has a Cross Site Script (XSS) vulnerability.
Affected Components
Version 4.1 of Embedded Video Word Press Plugin.
Issue Mitigation
This problem was confirmed in the latest version of the plugin, other versions maybe also affected. The developer replied to the advisory in a very responsible manner but unfortunately there will be no updates due to the fact that this component is not maintained anymore.
CVSS Scoring System
The CVSS score is: 6.4
- Base Score: 6.7
- Temporal Score: 6.4
We used the following values to calculate the scores:
- Base score is: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
- Temporal score is: E:F/RL:U/RC:C
Details
The file lembedded-video.php does not sanitize content variable, it is possible to inject malformed data by Javascript.
Code affected:
function embeddedvideo_plugin($content) { $output = preg_replace_callback(REGEXP_1, 'embeddedvideo_plugin_callback', $content); $output = preg_replace_callback(REGEXP_2, 'embeddedvideo_plugin_callback', $output); $output = preg_replace_callback(REGEXP_3, 'embeddedvideo_plugin_callback', $output); return ($output); }Request:
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Issue History
- October 20, 2010: Issue discovered by Wagner Elias at Conviso Labs.
- October 22, 2010: Issue informed to the author.
- October 30, 2010: Author informed that the plugin is not maintained anymore.
- December 17, 2010: Security Advisory published.
