Security Advisory SA51271 - WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin swfupload Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin swfupload Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA51271

Release Date

2012-11-14

Last Update

2012-12-07

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Software:

WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to a bundled vulnerable version of swfupload.

For more information:
SA49651

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.9.7. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.9.8.

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Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/changelog/

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Subject: WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin swfupload Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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JDGrimes

RE: WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin swfupload Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

14th Nov, 2012 22:23

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Last edited on 14th Nov, 2012 22:23

I am confused. This says that the vulnerability was from a bundled version of swfupload and is confirmed in 1.9.7. But the changelog for the plugin states: "V1.9.7 - 11.13.2012

Secured: Removed bundled version of swfupload; using WordPress-bundled version instead for WordPress 3.2 instances" (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-galler...)

That seems to say that version 1.9.7 no longer uses the insecure version of the script. ???

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