[wp-testers] XSS problem?

Stefano steagl at people.it
Sun Jan 28 10:45:09 GMT 2007


On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:30:48 -0500, Mark Jaquith
<mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:

>On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:44 AM, Stefano wrote:
>
>> AN user form WordPress Italy signaled to me that inserting some
>> javascript code into a comment, in his example a simple allert, this
>> allert will show up every time the page is accessed.
>>
>> Yjis coul be a serious vurnerability or not ?
>
>It would be if regular commenters could do that.  He was likely  
>(hopefully) signed in as an Administrator when he published the  
>comment, which removes the strict HTML sanitization.

He says that happens evene if not logged it send a comment and cause i
ask to approve them all the script passess too.... i can't check it
now cause i'm not on my computer and i still have to update my online
blogs.

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