WordPress Tooltipy 5.0 Cross Site Scripting

`Details  
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Software: Tooltipy (tooltips for WP)  
Version: 5.0  
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bluet-keywords-tooltip-generator/  
Advisory report: https://advisories.dxw.com/advisories/xss-in-tooltipy/  
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 Tooltipy (tooltips for WP) could allow anybody to do almost anything an admin can  
  
Vulnerability  
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Tootipy contains reflected XSS in the [kttg_glossary] shortcode meaning that admin usersa browsers can be hijacked by anybody who sends them a link. The hijacked browser can be made to do almost anything an admin user can normally do.  
  
Proof of concept  
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Create a page containing the [kttg_glossary] shortcode  
Visit the new page, and add the following to the end of the URL: ?cat=\'><script>alert(1)</script>  
Youall see an alert in browsers without XSS prevention such as Firefox  
  
  
  
Mitigations  
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Upgrade to version 5.1 or later.  
  
Disclosure policy  
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://advisories.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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2018-03-29: Discovered  
2018-04-10: Reported to vendor via email (first attempt)  
2018-04-30: Asked if theyad received the email, via Facebook private message (second attempt)  
2018-05-03: Reported again via contact form (third attempt)  
2018-05-18: Reported to [email protected]  
2018-05-18: WordPress plugin team disabled downloads of the plugin  
2018-05-21: Vendor reported a fix has been made for the bug (first contact from vendor)  
2018-06-05: Updated version of plugin is now available for download on wordpress.org  
2018-06-12: Advisory published  
  
  
  
Discovered by dxw:  
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Tom Adams  
Please visit advisories.dxw.com for more information.  
  
  
  
  
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