WordPress Refraction Theme Multiple Vulnerabilities

By
Jijith Rajan
Published on
26 Jun 2018

The old JW player and Rokbox had vulnerabilities in the Refraction theme. The old WordPress versions allow remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML using the director name of a theme.The attacker can exploit this vulnerability for Cross site scripting in theme name fallback functionality which is contained in WordPress theme PHP file.

Impact

The impact include:-

  • Cross-site Scripting
  • Content scripting
  • Full path disclosure

Mitigation / Precaution

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Written by
Jijith Rajan
Jijith Rajan
Cyber Security Engineer
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