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WordPress Image Metadata Cruncher Cross Site Scripting

🗓️ 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00Reported by Kaustubh G. PadwadType 
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WordPress Image Metadata Cruncher XSS vulnerability, medium severit

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Title:- XSS In Image-Metadata-Cruncher  
Author: Kaustubh G. Padwad  
Product: image-metadata-cruncher  
pluginURL:https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-metadata-cruncher/   
Severity: Medium  
Auth: Requierd  
  
# Description:   
Vulnerable Parameter:   
Alternate text:  
Caption:  
Custom image meta tags:  
  
# Vulnerability Class:  
Cross Site Scripting (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A3-Cross-Site_Scripting_(XSS))  
  
# About Vulnerability: This plugin is vulnerable to reflected XSS.  
  
  
#Steps to Reproduce: (POC):  
After installing plugin  
Enter this URL   
1. Login to wordpress  
  
Navigate to this URL  
2.http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=image_metadata_cruncher-options&settings-updated=true  
  
The follwing fileds are vulabrable to XSS  
  
Alternate text: Need to paste the payload this prevent from typing script  
Caption: Need to paste the payload this prevent from typing script  
Custom image meta tags: Need to paste the payload this prevent from typing script  
  
  
#Impact  
This vulnablerbility can be tricked using CSRF and can use xss to steal tthe cookie,creadintial code execution etc.  
  
# Disclosure:   
1-feb-2015 Repoerted to Developer  
2-Feb-2015 Acknodlagement from Developer  
8-feb-2015 Ask update from developer  
13-feb-2015 Inform developer about Public discloser with confirmation of patching this in next realese  
14-feb-2015 Inform to Bugtraq,Public Disclose  
  
#credits:  
Kaustubh Padwad  
Information Security Researcher  
[email protected]  
https://twitter.com/s3curityb3ast  
http://breakthesec.com  
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaustubhpadwad  
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