WordPress 'press-this.php' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
12 Apr. 2012
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s parameter (aka the selection variable).
WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks
Vendor Status:
Wordpress had issues an update for this Vulnerability