Advisory #: 208
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin reusables v3.1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/reusables
Downloads: 7968
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: reusables
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./reusables/screens/page-insert-post.php: 60:<a href="admin.php?page=<?php echo $reusables->directory;?>/insert&f=post&region_id=<?php echo $_GET["region_id"];?>&paged=<?php echo $_REQUEST["paged"]-1;?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>" class="previous page-numbers">&laquo;</a> 68:<a href="admin.php?page=<?php echo $reusables->directory;?>/insert&f=post&region_id=<?php echo $_GET["region_id"];?>&paged=<?php echo $i;?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>" class="page-numbers"><?php echo $i?></a> 74:<a href="admin.php?page=<?php echo $reusables->directory;?>/insert&f=post&region_id=<?php echo $_GET["region_id"];?>&paged=<?php echo $_REQUEST["paged"]+1;?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>" class="next page-numbers">&raquo;</a> 141:<a href="admin.php?page=<?php echo $reusables->directory;?>/insert&f=post&region_id=<?php echo $_GET["region_id"];?>&paged=<?php echo $_REQUEST["paged"]-1;?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>" class="previous page-numbers">&laquo;</a> 149:<a href="admin.php?page=<?php echo $reusables->directory;?>/insert&f=post&region_id=<?php echo $_GET["region_id"];?>&paged=<?php echo $i;?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>" class="page-numbers"><?php echo $i?></a> 155:<a href="admin.php?page=<?php echo $reusables->directory;?>/insert&f=post&region_id=<?php echo $_GET["region_id"];?>&paged=<?php echo $_REQUEST["paged"]+1;?>&n=<?php echo $numberposts?>" class="next page-numbers">&raquo;</a> The variable region_id appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./reusables/screens/page-insert-post.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/reusables/screens/page-insert-post.php?region_id=">"><script>alert(1);</script><"<"