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WordPress Age Gate <2.13.5 - Open Redirect

ID: age-gate-open-redirect

Severity: medium

Author: akincibor

Tags: agegate,unauth,wpscan,packetstorm,wp-plugin,redirect,wordpress,wp

Description

Section titled “Description”

WordPress Age Gate plugin before 2.13.5 contains an open redirect vulnerability via the _wp_http_referer parameter after certain actions and after invalid or missing nonces. An attacker can redirect a user to a malicious site and possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: age-gate-open-redirect


info:
  name: WordPress Age Gate <2.13.5 - Open Redirect
  author: akincibor
  severity: medium
  description: WordPress Age Gate plugin before 2.13.5 contains an open redirect vulnerability via the  _wp_http_referer parameter after certain actions and after invalid or missing nonces. An attacker can redirect a user to a malicious site and possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10489
    - https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160236/
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/age-gate
  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
    cwe-id: CWE-601
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
  tags: agegate,unauth,wpscan,packetstorm,wp-plugin,redirect,wordpress,wp


http:
  - method: POST
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-post.php'


    body: age_gate%5Bd%5D=10&age_gate%5Bm%5D=10&age_gate%5By%5D=1990&age_gate%5Bremember%5D=1&age_gate%5Bage%5D=TVRnPQ%3D%3D&action=age_gate_submit&age_gate%5Bnonce%5D=48f2b89fed&_wp_http_referer=https://interact.sh


    headers:
      Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        part: header
        regex:
          - '(?m)^(?:Location\s*?:\s*?)(?:https?:\/\/|\/\/|\/\\\\|\/\\)(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.@]*)interact\.sh\/?(\/|[^.].*)?$' # https://regex101.com/r/L403F0/1
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100d026686666f46922e0dc374e1bd98cc50f054bf3ad6b7a5b23791df010a4921c022100b967666fa67d97afb2855ffcc3755b751f0550398e9f79e7a8a514e6083f81a5:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/vulnerabilities/wordpress/age-gate-open-redirect.yaml"

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