WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Google XML Sitemaps <= 4.0.8 - Authenticated Reflected XSS (via HOST header)

Description

The plugin contains a Paypal donate button that is echoing the global variable HTTP_HOST, which can be manipulated by the visitor.

Vulnerable Code:

sitemap-ui.php L1310
echo 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']...

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
google-sitemap-generator
Fixed in 4.0.9

References

URL
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-sitemap-generator/trunk/sitemap-ui.php#L1310

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Submitter
Gerard Arall
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
83d46f91-314f-40a7-aa51-18426b2a2fa1

Timeline

Publicly Published
2017-03-01 (about 9 years ago)
Added
2017-03-03 (about 9 years ago)
Last Updated
2017-07-26 (about 8 years ago)

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