HexBrain

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

  1. Go to (https://theacademy.upserve.com/playlists/all-videos/).
  2. Click on any video to watch from the playlist and capture the request in burp.
  3. 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)
  4. then replace the video_id with this payload = r"><BODY%20ONLOAD=alert(1)>.
  5. 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.

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