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
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
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)