full-disclosure - [FD] Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in W3 Total Cache plugin

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:16:00 +0100
From: Summer of Pwnage <lists@...urify.nl>
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: [FD] Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in W3 Total Cache
	plugin

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Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in W3 Total Cache plugin
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Sipke Mellema, July 2016

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Abstract
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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.

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OVE ID
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OVE-20160719-0004

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Tested versions
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This issue was successfully tested on W3 Total Cache version 0.9.4.1.

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Fix
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This issue is resolved in W3 Total Cache version 0.9.5.

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Details
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https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/reflected_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_w3_total_cache_plugin.html

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