National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4402
Original release date:12/06/2010
Last revised:12/20/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-login.php in the Register Plus plugin 3.5.1 and earlier for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) firstname, (2) lastname, (3) website, (4) aim, (5) yahoo, (6) jabber, (7) about, (8) pass1, and (9) pass2 parameters in a register action.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 45057
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20101125 [Suspected Spam]Vulnerabilities in Register Plus for WordPress
External Source: MISC
Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/4539
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42360
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/96143/registerplus-xss.txt
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 69491
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)