Description

WordPress Plugin Spider Calendar is prone to an SQL injection and a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin Spider Calendar version 1.0.1 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 1.1.3 or latest

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21715/

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/117078/WordPress-Spider-1.0.1-SQL-Injection-XSS.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/50812/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-79 CWE-89 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update SQL Injection XSS