Soundy Background Music plugin version 3.1 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
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## FULL DISCLOSURE
#Product : Soundy Background Music
#Exploit Author : Rahul Pratap Singh
#Version : 3.1
#Home page Link : https://wordpress.org/plugins/soundy-background-music/
#Website : 0x62626262.wordpress.com
#Linkedin : https://in.linkedin.com/in/rahulpratapsingh94
#Date : 12/3/2016
XSS Vulnerability:
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Description:
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"war_soundy_audio_volume" parameter is not sanitized that leads to
Reflected XSS.
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Vulnerable Code:
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soundy.php
1462-1473
if( $audio_volume_def == 'default' )
{
$audio_volume = 'default';
}
else
{
$audio_volume = $_POST[ 'war_soundy_audio_volume' ];
}
update_post_meta( $post_id,
'war_soundy_audio_volume',
$audio_volume );
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POC:
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https://0x62626262.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/soundy_background_music_xss.png
Fix:
Update to 3.2
Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
→ March 3, 2016 – Bug discovered, initial report to WordPress
→ March 7, 2016 – No response, Report sent again.
→ March 8, 2016 – WordPress response, plugin taken down
→ March 10, 2016 – Vendor deployed a patch
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Pub Ref:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/soundy-background-music/changelog/