------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in W3 Total Cache plugin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sipke Mellema, July 2016
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the W3 Total Cache plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing Administrators' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions on their behalf. In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a logged on WordPress Administrator into opening a URL provided by an attacker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVE ID ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVE-20160719-0004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tested versions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This issue was successfully tested on W3 Total Cache version 0.9.4.1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This issue is resolved in W3 Total Cache version 0.9.5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Details ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/reflected_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_w3_total_cache_plugin.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summer of Pwnage (https://sumofpwn.nl) is a Dutch community project. Its goal is to contribute to the security of popular, widely used OSS projects in a fun and educational way. _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/