WordPress Thank You Counter Button Plugin 'paged' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
7 Dec. 2012
Summary
The Thank You Counter Button plugin for WordPress is prone to a cross-site-scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Charlie Eriksen via Secunia .
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 can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.