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Reflected XSS in Social Pug – Easy Social Share Buttons could allow an attacker to do almost anything an admin user can (WordPress plugin)
From: dxw Security <security () dxw com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:58:28 +0000
Details ================ Software: Social Pug - Easy Social Share Buttons Version: 1.1.2,1.2.5 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-pug/ Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-social-pug-easy-social-share-buttons-could-allow-an-attacker-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-user-can/ CVE: Awaiting assignment CVSS: 5.8 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) Description ================ Reflected XSS in Social Pug – Easy Social Share Buttons could allow an attacker to do almost anything an admin user can Vulnerability ================ This plugin takes input from $_GET and puts it directly into HTML without escaping it. This means that anybody who is able to convince an admin user to click on a link would be able to take control of their browser on that domain name and delete posts, add new admin users, etc.. Proof of concept ================ Log in as an admin user with this plugin activated, using a browser without reflected XSS prevention (i.e. Firefox). Visit this URL: /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dpsp-toolkit&settings-updated=1&dpsp_message_id=0&dpsp_message_class=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E Mitigations ================ Update to version 1.2.6 or later. Disclosure policy ================ dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/ Please contact us on security () dxw com to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, plugins () wordpress org) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf. This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days. Timeline ================ 2016-02-24: Discovered 2016-12-07: Reported via https://devpups.com/support/ 2016-12-07: Requested CVE 2016-12-08: Vendor reported issue fixed in 1.2.6 2016-12-09: Advisory published Discovered by dxw: ================ Tom Adams Please visit security.dxw.com for more information. _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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