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BulletProof Security < 5.8 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Proof of Concept

As admin, put the following payloads:

- # </textarea><svg/onload=prompt(/XSS/)> in the htaccess File Options > htaccess File Editor > secure.htaccess texture field and save
- "><svg/onload=prompt(/XSS/)> in JTC Lite > Login Form: CAPTCHA Error message / Comment Form: CAPTCHA Error message (BPS Pro Only) fields and save 

Affects Plugins

bulletproof-security
Fixed in version 5.2

References

CVE
CVE-2022-0590

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Mika

Submitter

Mika

Submitter website
https://mikadmin.fr/
Submitter twitter
mika_sec
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
08b66b69-3c69-4a1e-9c0a-5697e31bc04e

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-02-22 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2022-02-22 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-10 (about 1 years ago)

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