This post describes the Akal premium WordPress theme XSS vulnerability that I discovered. The theme suffers from a reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that would allow an attacker to steal an admin’s cookie, if WordPress wasn’t secured against that type of attacks.
Tag: Cross Site Scripting
prettyPhoto DOM based XSS
prettyPhoto DOM based XSS on Saotn.org… This evening, after tweeting about preventing cross site scripting vulnerabilities, I received a reply from Olivier Beg. His reply to my tweet contained an image, as you can see above. He alerted me that Saotn.org was vulnerable to a DOM based XSS vulnerability, hidden in prettyPhoto used by my WordPress theme. Whoops! So, I had work to do! But, what is prettyPhoto and what exactly is a DOM based XSS?