------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in WP No External Links WordPress Plugin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yorick Koster, July 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the WP No External Links 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-20160712-0020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tested versions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This issue was successfully tested on WP No External Links WordPress Plugin version 3.5.15. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This issue is resolved in WP No External Links version 3.5.16. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Details ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wp_no_external_links_wordpress_plugin.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summer of Pwnage (https://sumofpwn.nl) is a Dutch community project. Its goal is to contribute to the security of popular, widely used OSS projects in a fun and educational way.
