Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in an mt import in wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress 2.1.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the demo parameter. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information. NOTE: another researcher disputes this issue, stating that this is legitimate functionality for administrators. However, it has been patched by at least one vendor
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities | product |
http://osvdb.org/33884 | vdb entry broken link |
http://secunia.com/advisories/24566 | third party advisory permissions required |
http://secunia.com/advisories/24430 | third party advisory permissions required |
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-23.xml | third party advisory vendor advisory |
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=117319839710382&w=2 | mailing list |