WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2013-2204 Modified

Media: A security weakness

Media is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS · secalert@redhat.com
NVD score 4.3 CVSS 2.0 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Media
Plugin slug
media
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Jul 08, 2013
Weakness
CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

This CVE was published Jul 08, 2013 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Media to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

moxieplayer.as in Moxiecode moxieplayer, as used in the TinyMCE Media plugin in WordPress before 3.5.2 and other products, does not consider the presence of a # (pound sign) character during extraction of the QUERY_STRING, which allows remote attackers to pass arbitrary parameters to a Flash application, and conduct content-spoofing attacks, via a crafted string after a ? (question mark) character.

NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources