Wordpress WooCommerce Plugin 2.0.17 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

2013.10.18

Credit: Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic

Risk: Low

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: N/A

CWE: CWE-79

Wordpress WooCommerce Plugin 2.0.17 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Vendor: WooThemes
Product web page: http://www.woothemes.com
Affected version: 2.0.17 and 2.0.14
Summary: WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress.
Desc: The plugin suffers from a XSS issue due to a failure to properly
sanitize user-supplied input to the 'hide-wc-extensions-message' parameter
in the 'admin/woocommerce-admin-settings.php' script. Attackers can exploit
this weakness to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser
session.
Tested on: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (EN)
Apache 2.4.2 (Win32)
PHP 5.4.7
MySQL 5.5.25a
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
@zeroscience
Figh hive teppei
Advisory ID: ZSL-2013-5156
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2013-5156.php
Vendor: https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/commit/4b581450480d74667b76d6ba50961d79a6d7a0c1
13.10.2013
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http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=woocommerce_settings&saved=true&%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27ZSL%20XSS%27%29;%3C/script%3E

References:

http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2013-5156.php

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