Exploits / Vulnerability Discovered : 2020-11-17 |
Type : webapps |
Platform : php
This exploit / vulnerability Wordpress plugin buddypress 6.2.0 persistent crosssite scripting is for educational purposes only and if it is used you will do on your own risk!
Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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2263
Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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4.2
Vulnerability Class:
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Cross Site Scripting - Persistent
Current Estimated Price:
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500€ - 1.000€
Product & Service Introduction:
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Are you looking for modern, robust, and sophisticated social network
software? BuddyPress is a suite of components that are common
to a typical social network, and allows for great add-on features
through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. Aimed at site builders
& developers, BuddyPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use,
and extensibility. It is deliberately powerful yet unbelievably
simple social network software, built by contributors to WordPress.
(Copy of the Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/ &
https://buddypress.org/download/ )
Abstract Advisory Information:
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The vulnerability laboratory core research team discovered a persistent
xss web vulnerability in the Buddypress v6.2.0 plugin for wordpress.
User Interaction:
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No User Interaction
Disclosure Type:
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Independent Security Research
Technical Details & Description:
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A persistent input validation web vulnerability has been discovered in
the Buddypress v6.0.0 - v6.2.0 plugin for wordpress.
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject own malicious script
codes with persistent attack vector to compromise
browser to web-application requests from the application-side.
The persistent vulnerability is located in the `wp:html` name parameter
of the `figure` content. Remote attackers with privileges
are able to inject own malicious persistent script code as input to
compromise the internal ui of the wordpress backend. The attacker
injects his code and in case the admin or other privileged user account
previews the content the code simple executes. The request method
to inject is POST and the attack vector is located on the application-side.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities results in session
hijacking, persistent phishing attacks, persistent external
redirects to malicious source and persistent manipulation of affected
application modules.
Request Method(s):
[+] POST
Vulnerable Module(s):
[+] wp:html
Vulnerable Parameter(s):
[+] figure
Affected Module(s):
[+] page_id=x&preview=true
Proof of Concept (PoC):
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The persistent web vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers
with privilged user accounts without user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the
provided information and steps below to continue.
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