A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Google Maps WordPress Plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing users' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions on their behalf. In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a victim into opening a malicious website/link.
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This issue has been found during the Summer of Pwnage hacker event, running from July 1-29. A community summer event in which a large group of security bughunters (worldwide) collaborate in a month of security research on Open Source Software (WordPress this time). For fun. The event is hosted by Securify in Amsterdam.
OVE-20160712-0038
This issue was successfully tested on Google Maps WordPress Plugin version 2.1.2.
This issue is resolved in Google Maps version 2.1.4.
The Google Maps WordPress Plugin is a simple and effective tool for rapid creation of individual Google Maps in posts and pages. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Google Maps WordPress Plugin. This issue allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing users' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions on their behalf. In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a victim into opening a malicious website/link.
This issue exists due to the lack of output encoding on the id URL parameter. The vulnerable code fragment is listed below:
<form action="admin.php?page=hugeitgooglemaps_main&task=edit_cat&id=<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>" method="post" name="adminform" id="adminform">
