CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1494
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.
Affected configurations
• colorlib fancybox (<= 3.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.html Third Party Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543 Broken Link
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/ Issue Tracking
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/changelog/ Patch
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2 Exploit
- http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.html Third Party Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543 Broken Link
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/ Issue Tracking
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/changelog/ Patch
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2 Exploit