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Ivory Search < 4.5.11 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The setting page of Ivory Search 4.5.10 is vulnerable to reflected XSS when a logged in administrator visit a malicious link or page, as it does not sanitise or escape the GET post parameter before outputting it in a tag attribute

Proof of Concept

As an admin user, open: https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=ivory-search-new&tab=customize&post=a\"><script>alert(/XSS/)<%2Fscript>

Video: https://mega.nz/file/3tVzzYgA#M6LIoYcnNJbMX6UU19mU7QKCLdNp7Ur0PPsrY8Mj3z0 

Affects Plugins

add-search-to-menu
Fixed in version 4.5.11

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Nguyen Anh Tien - SunCSR (Sun* Cyber Security Research)

Submitter

Nguyen Anh Tien

Submitter website
https://research.sun-asterisk.com/en
Submitter twitter
vigov5
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
7794b721-bbd5-43f6-b3af-b86426b359a2

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-02-01 (about 2 years ago)

Added

2021-02-01 (about 2 years ago)

Last Updated

2021-02-01 (about 2 years ago)

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