Upserve · Report #415139
Reflected xss on theacademy.upserve.com
Validstatus
lowseverity
20upvotes
28 Sept 2018disclosed
How it was found
Vulnerabilty Reflected xss in (https://theacademy.upserve.com).
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
- Go to (https://theacademy.upserve.com/playlists/all-videos/).
- Click on any video to watch from the playlist and capture the request in burp.
- you have to capture the request to (https://theacademy.upserve.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=load_player&video_id=5742677405001&player_id=B14h0D4OM&type=pc&post_id=2712)
- then replace the video_id with this payload = r"><BODY%20ONLOAD=alert(1)>.
- Then see the response in browser and the popup will appear.
NOTE: I also attached a video POC
Impact
With the help of xss a hacker or attacker can perform social engineering on users by redirecting them from real website to fake one. hacker can steal their cookies and download a malware on their system, and there are many more attacking scenarios a skilled attacker can perform with xss.