WordPress Core <= 3.5.1 - Content-Spoofing Attacks

Improper Input Validation
CVE CVE-2013-2204
CVSS Medium (4.6)
Publicly Published June 21, 2013
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Wan Ikram
Description

moxieplayer.as in Moxiecode moxieplayer, as used in the TinyMCE Media plugin in WordPress before 3.5.2 and other products, does not consider the presence of a # (pound sign) character during extraction of the QUERY_STRING, which allows remote attackers to pass arbitrary parameters to a Flash application, and conduct content-spoofing attacks, via a crafted string after a ? (question mark) character.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.1
Patched Version
  • 3.5.2
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