A vulnerability was found in Free Counter Plugin 1.1 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. The manipulation of the argument value_ with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Free Counter plugin 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the value_ parameter in a check_stat action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

The weakness was disclosed 05/28/2015 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-4084 since 05/26/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:wp-admin/admin-ajax.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (37132).

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• Free Counter Plugin

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