CVE-2013-2204

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

moxieplayer.as in Moxiecode moxieplayer, as used in the TinyMCE Media plugin in WordPress before 3.5.2 and other products, does not consider the presence of a # (pound sign) character during extraction of the QUERY_STRING, which allows remote attackers to pass arbitrary parameters to a Flash application, and conduct content-spoofing attacks, via a crafted string after a ? (question mark) character.

Affected products

tinymce Media: all versions
WordPress: through 3.5.1; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+70)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
https://github.com/moxiecode/moxieplayer/commit/b61ac518ffa2657e2dc9019b2dcf2f3f37dbfab0
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
https://github.com/moxiecode/moxieplayer/commit/b61ac518ffa2657e2dc9019b2dcf2f3f37dbfab0

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