Automattic · Report #950845
Reflected XSS at /category/ on a Atavis theme
Validstatus
mediumseverity
15upvotes
18 Nov 2020disclosed
How it was found
Summary:
Hi team,
This report is similar to #947790
You fixed the XSS on search, but I found another XSS at /category/xsspayload
For PoC you can check these URLs : https://magazine.atavist.com/category/%22%3E%3Csvg%20onload%3Dalert%60XSS%60%3E https://docs.atavist.com/category/%22%3E%3Csvg%20onload%3Dalert%60XSS%60%3E
You can encode " ' < > characters with HTML encoding in this endpoint.
Impact
Reflected XSS - cookie stealing
Thanks, Bugra