WordPress Refraction Theme Multiple Vulnerabilities

Jijith Rajan

Published on

26 Jun 2018

Vulnerability

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

Automated human-like penetration testing for your web apps & APIs

Teams using Beagle Security are set up in minutes, embrace release-based CI/CD security testing and save up to 65% with timely remediation of vulnerabilities. Sign up for a free account to see what it can do for you.

Product tour

Written by