Ad Inserter - Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)

Severity pending

Severity pending

Detected by

Fluid Attacks SAST Scanner

Disclosed by Andres Roldan

Summary

Full name

Ad Inserter - Ad Manager and AdSense Ads 2.8.0 - Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)

Code name

State

Public

Release date

Mar 5, 2024

Affected product

Ad Inserter - Ad Manager and AdSense Ads

Affected version(s)

Version 2.8.0

Vulnerability name

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)

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

Exploit available

No

Description

Ad Inserter - Ad Manager and AdSense Ads 2.8.0 was found to be vulnerable. The web application dynamically generates web content without validating the source of the potentially untrusted data in myapp/includes/dst/dst.php.

Vulnerability

Skims by Fluid Attacks discovered a Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in Ad Inserter - Ad Manager and AdSense Ads 2.8.0. The following is the output of the tool:

Skims output

 1534 | $this->action = self::DST_ACTION_OPTIN_NEWSLETTER;
 1535 | $this->update (true);
 1536 | } elseif ($action == '-no') {
 1537 | $this->set_use_email (false);
 1538 | $this->action = self::DST_ACTION_OPTIN_NO_NEWSLETTER;
 1539 | $this->update (true);
 1540 | }
 1541 | }
 1542 |
 1543 | elseif (isset ($_POST [""slug""]) && isset ($_POST [""notice-check""])) {
> 1544 | echo $_POST [""notice-check""];
 1545 | }
 1546 |
 1547 | elseif (isset ($_POST [""slug""]) && isset ($_POST [""values""]) && isset ($_POST ['details'])) {
 1548 | $values = json_encode (wp_unslash ($_POST ['values']));
 1549 | $this->set_deactivation_reason ($values);
 1550 |
 1551 | $details = sanitize_text_field (wp_unslash ($_POST ['details']));
 1552 | $this->set_deactivation_details ($details);
  1553 |
  1554 |       if (isset ($_POST [""hide_form""])) {
       ^ Col 0

Our security policy

We have reserved the ID CVE-2025-22623 to refer to this issue from now on.

Disclosure policy

System Information

  • Version: Ad Inserter - Ad Manager and AdSense Ads 2.8.0

Mitigation

The vendor released the version 2.8.1 with a fix for this vulnerability.

Timeline

Dec 6, 2024

Vulnerability discovered

Feb 11, 2025

Vendor contacted

Feb 12, 2025

Vendor replied

Feb 12, 2025

Vendor confirmed

Mar 3, 2025

Vulnerability patched

Mar 5, 2025

Public disclosure

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