WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Social Rocket < 1.3.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Proof of Concept

Logged in the backend of Wordpress as Administrator

1. Installed the plugin named: Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin
2. Activated the plugin.
3. On the left colum click now on Social Rocket > Floating Buttons.
4. Click now on Activate Networks and select Twitter as a social icon.
5. Hover now over the button Advanced, for this social button.
6. In the button Text use the following payload:

"><svg onload=alert(/XSSTEST/)>

7. Then Click on Done
8. Now click on the far right button Save.
9. And you will see the stored XSS vulnerability popping up.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.3.3

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-09-19 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-09-19 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-09-19 (about 1 years ago)

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