Content.ad - Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.8
Medium
4.8
Medium
4.8
Medium
4.8
Medium
Detected by


Fluid Attacks SAST Scanner
Disclosed by Andres Roldan
Summary
Full name
Content.ad 1.3. - Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
Code name
State
Private
Release date
Mar 14, 2025
Affected product
Content.ad
Affected version(s)
Version 1.3.
Vulnerability name
Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
Vulnerability type
Remotely exploitable
No
CVSS v4.0 vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:U
CVSS v4.0 base score
4.8
Exploit available
No
CVE ID(s)
Description
Content.ad 1.3. was found to be vulnerable. The web application dynamically generates web content without validating the source of the potentially untrusted data in myapp/includes/post-type.class.php.
Vulnerability
Skims by Fluid Attacks discovered a Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in Content.ad 1.3.. The following is the output of the tool:
Skims output
234 | function save_post( $post_id ) { 235 | if ( 'content_ad_widget' == get_post_type( $post_id ) ) { 236 | if ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) { 237 | return $post_id; 238 | } 239 | if( defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) && DOING_AJAX ) { 240 | contentAd_append_to_log( 'AJAX ""QUICK EDIT"" SAVE' ); 241 | if( isset( $_POST['action'] ) && isset( $_POST['screen'] ) && 'inline-save' == $_POST['action'] && 'edit-content_ad_ 242 | 243 | // If Template Tag or Shortcode placements are selected, then all other placement options are reset since they may 244 | if( isset( $_POST['placement'] ) && ( $_POST['placement'] == 'in_function' || $_POST['placement'] == 'in_shortcode' 245 | $_POST['_ca_display_home'] = 1; 246 | $_POST['_ca_display_cat_tag'] = 1; 247 | unset($_POST['post_category']); $_POST['post_category'] = array(); 248 | unset($_POST['post_tag']); $_POST['post_tag'] = array(); 249 | 250 | } 251 | 252 | if ( isset( $_POST['_ca_display_home'] ) ) { 253 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING _ca_display_home FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: ' . $_POST['_ca_display_home'] 254 | update_post_meta( $post_id, '_ca_display_home', strip_tags( $_POST['_ca_display_home'] ) ); 255 | } else { 256 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING _ca_display_home FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: 0' ); 257 | delete_post_meta( $post_id, '_ca_display_home' ); 258 | } 259 | 260 | if ( isset( $_POST['_ca_display_cat_tag'] ) ) { 261 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING _ca_display_cat_tag PLACEMENT FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: ' . $_POST['_ca_d 262 | update_post_meta( $post_id, '_ca_display_cat_tag', strip_tags( $_POST['_ca_display_cat_tag'] ) ); 263 | } else { 264 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING _ca_display_cat_tag FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: 0' ); 265 | delete_post_meta( $post_id, '_ca_display_cat_tag' ); 266 | } 267 | 268 | if ( isset( $_POST['placement'] ) ) { 269 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING PLACEMENT FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: ' . $_POST['placement'] ); 270 | update_post_meta( $post_id, 'placement', strip_tags( $_POST['placement'] ) ); 271 | } 272 | 273 | if( isset( $_POST['post_category'] ) && is_array( $_POST['post_category'] ) ) { 274 | foreach( $_POST['post_category'] as $key => $cat_id ) { 275 | if( empty( $cat_id ) ) { 276 | unset( $_POST['post_category'][$key] ); 277 | } else { 278 | $_POST['post_category'][$key] = (int) $cat_id; 279 | } 280 | } 281 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING EXCLUSION CATEGORIES FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: ' . join(', ', $_POST['pos 282 | update_post_meta( $post_id, '_excluded_categories', $_POST['post_category'] ); 283 | } 284 | > 285 | echo $_POST['post_tag']; 286 | 287 | if( isset( $_POST['post_tag'] ) ) { 288 | $tags = explode(',', preg_replace( '/, /', ',', strip_tags( implode("" "", $_POST['post_tag']) ) )); 289 | $terms = array(); 290 | $terms = array_unique($terms); 291 | foreach( $tags as $tag ) { 292 | $term = get_term_by( 'name', $tag, 'post_tag' ); 293 | if( $term ) { 294 | $terms[] = $term->name; 295 | } else { 296 | wp_insert_term( $tag, 'post_tag' ); 297 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' ADDING NEW EXCLUSION TAGS: ' . join( ', ', $return ) ); 298 | $terms[] = $tag; 299 | $new_terms[] = $tag; 300 | } 301 | } 302 | if($new_terms) { 303 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' ADDING NEW EXCLUSION TAGS: ' . join( ', ', $new_terms ) ); 304 | } 305 | contentAd_append_to_log( ' UPDATING EXCLUSION TAGS FOR POST ('.$post_id.') TO: ' . join( ', ', $terms ) ); 306 | update_post_meta( $post_id, '_excluded_tags', join( ', ', $terms ) ); 307 | } 308 | } 309 | } 310 | } 311 | } ^ Col 0
Our security policy
We have reserved the ID CVE-2025-31292 to refer to this issue from now on. Disclosure policy
System Information
Product: Content.ad
Version: 1.3.
Mitigation
There is currently no patch available for this vulnerability.
Timeline
Vulnerability discovered
Mar 14, 2025
Vendor contacted
Mar 14, 2025

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