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Persistent XSS in Wordpress 3.3.1+dfsg-1 (Packaged with Ubuntu 12.04.4)

From: "Larry W. Cashdollar" <larry0 () me com>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 09:56:42 -0500

Title: Persistent XSS in Wordpress 3.3.1+dfsg-1 (Packaged with Ubuntu 12.04.4)

Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0

Date: 2/1/2014

Vendor: Not notified yet.

Download: http://wordpress.org/download 

Versions Impacted: 3.3.1 -> 3.8.1 tested 2/2/2014.

CVE: Please assign.

Persistent XSS injection description field in Media Library.

Description: A persistent cross site scripting vulnerability exists in the latest version of WordPress in the Media 
Library.  It appears the Description field is not properly sanitized when viewed.  The malicious code is stored when 
the description field is saved.

Full Advisory: http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/wordpress/XSS/xss_wordpress.html

Current thread:

Persistent XSS in Wordpress 3.3.1+dfsg-1 (Packaged with Ubuntu 12.04.4) Larry W. Cashdollar (Feb 02)
- Re: Persistent XSS in Wordpress 3.3.1+dfsg-1 (Packaged with Ubuntu 12.04.4) Larry W. Cashdollar (Feb 02)
  - Re: Persistent XSS in Wordpress 3.3.1+dfsg-1 (Packaged with Ubuntu 12.04.4) larry Cashdollar (Feb 03)