WordPress Contact Form DB 2.8.13 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Product: Contact Form DB WordPress plugin
Vendor: Michael Simpson
Vulnerable Version(s): 2.8.13 and probably prior
Tested Version: 2.8.13
Advisory Publication:  September 17, 2014  [without technical details]
Vendor Notification: September 17, 2014 
Vendor Patch: September 25, 2014 
Public Disclosure: October 8, 2014 
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting [CWE-79]
CVE Reference: CVE-2014-7139
Risk Level: Low 
CVSSv2 Base Score: 2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Solution Status: Fixed by Vendor
Discovered and Provided: High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab ( https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/ ) 

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Advisory Details:

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered two XSS vulnerabilities in Contact Form DB WordPress plugin, which can be exploited to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks against administrator of a WordPress website with vulnerable plugin installed.

1) Two Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities in Contact Form DB WordPress Plugin: CVE-2014-7139

1.1 Input passed via the "form" HTTP GET parameter to "/wp-admin/admin.php" script is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. A remote attacker can trick a logged-in administrator to open a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in browser in context of the vulnerable website.

The exploitation example below uses the "alert()" JavaScript function to display "immuniweb" word:

http://[host]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=CF7DBPluginShortCodeBuilder&form=%27%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28/immuniweb/%29;%3C/script%3E

1.2 Input passed via the "enc" HTTP GET parameter to "/wp-admin/admin.php" script is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. A remote attacker can trick a logged-in administrator to open a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in browser in context of the vulnerable website.

The exploitation example below uses the "alert()" JavaScript function to display "immuniweb" word:

http://[host]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=CF7DBPluginShortCodeBuilder&enc=%27%22%29;%3Cscript%3Ealert%28/immuniweb/%29;%3C/script%3E

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Solution:

Update to Contact Form DB 2.8.16.

More Information:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/changelog/

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