WordPress GD bbPress Attachments 2.1 Cross Site Scripting

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Software: GD bbPress Attachments  
Version: 2.1  
Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/  
Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-gd-bbpress-attachments-allows-an-attacker-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-can/  
CVE: Awaiting assignment  
CVSS: 5.8 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)  
  
Description  
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Reflected XSS in GD bbPress Attachments allows an attacker to do almost anything an admin can  
  
Vulnerability  
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This plugin outputs the value of $_GET[‘tab’] without escaping (see forms/panels.php lines 3 and 39). An attacker could easily construct an URL which performs virtually any action an admin is able to perform, including creating/deleting users/posts, injecting malicious HTML into user-facing pages, or editing PHP files (if that feature hasn’t been disabled).  
  
Proof of concept  
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Visit the following URL in a browser with no reflected XSS protection (i.e. Firefox or older versions of IE):  
http://localhost/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum&page=gdbbpress_attachments&tab=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E  
  
Mitigations  
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Upgrade to version 2.3 or later  
  
Disclosure policy  
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/  
  
Please contact us on [email protected] to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, [email protected]) 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  
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2015-02-25: Discovered  
2015-07-01: Reported to vendor via email form on https://www.dev4press.com/contact/  
2015-07-01: Requested CVE  
2015-07-01: Vendor responded  
2015-07-04: Vendor confirmed fixed  
2015-07-08: Published  
  
  
  
Discovered by dxw:  
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Tom Adams  
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.  
  
  
  
  
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