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Title: WordPress XSS and HTML injection
Vulnerability discovery: SoulBlack - Security Research - http://soulblack.com.ar 
Date: 12/04/2005
Severity: Medium. users can obtain cookies of other users and defacement website
Affected version: <= 1.5
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*Summary
http://wordpress.org. Wordpress is a popular blogging system built on PHP (the 
scripting language) and is licensed under the GPL. It is free software supported
by a large and vibrant community of users. You can use WordPress as a stand-alone
application to publish your web log, or incorporate its functionality into an
existing site. 

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*Problem Description:
Bug is in the content and  title of post, when not controlling the entrance of
characters, being able to inject HTML code

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*Example:
Type in the title or content of post

  <script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

  <iframe src=http://othersite/sb.php>

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*Fix:
  wordpress\wp-includes\template-functions-post.php

function get_the_title($id = 0) {
	.
	.
	.
	return $title;
}

replace for by function

function get_the_title($id = 0) {
	.
	.
	.
	$sb_convert = $output;
	$sb_input =  array("<",">","(",")");
	$sb_output = array("&lt;","&gt;","&#40;","&#41;");
	$output = str_replace($sb_input, $sb_output, $sb_convert);
	return $title;
}


function get_the_content($more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
	.
	.
	.
	return $output;
}

replace for by function

function get_the_content($more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
	.
	.
	.
	$sb_convert = $output;
	$sb_input =  array("<",">","(",")");
	$sb_output = array("&lt;","&gt;","&#40;","&#41;");
	$output = str_replace($sb_input, $sb_output, $sb_convert);
	return $output;
}

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