| Title | WordPress Woody Ad Snippets <2.2.5 - Cross-Site Scripting/Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | dwisiswant0,fmunozs,patralos |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access, data theft, and remote code execution. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the Woody Ad Snippets plugin (2.2.5) or apply the vendor-provided patch to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.59563 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-15858 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 wordpress wp-plugin xss wp webcraftic vuln |
WordPress Woody Ad Snippets prior to 2.2.5 is susceptible to cross-site scripting and remote code execution via admin/includes/class.import.snippet.php, which allows unauthenticated options import as demonstrated by storing a cross-site scripting payload for remote code execution.
GET /wp-content/plugins/insert-php/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-ca) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.20
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-15858.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2019-15858.pcap
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