WordPress WP Statistics Plugin <= 12.6.5 XSS Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140174");
  script_version("2024-11-01T05:05:36+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-11-01 05:05:36 +0000 (Fri, 01 Nov 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-06-11 01:58:42 +0000 (Tue, 11 Jun 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"3.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-06-03 12:50:00 +0000 (Mon, 03 Jun 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-12566");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("WordPress WP Statistics Plugin <= 12.6.5 XSS Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_plugin_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/plugin/wp-statistics/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The WordPress plugin 'WP Statistics' is prone to a cross-site
  scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The XSS flaw exists in includes/class-wp-statistics-pages.php.

  This is related to an account with the Editor role creating a post with a title that contains
  JavaScript, to attack an admin user.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WP Statistics plugin 12.6.5 and prior.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 12.7 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/271");

  exit(0);
}

CPE = "cpe:/a:veronalabs:wp_statistics";

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if( version_is_less_equal( version: version, test_version: "12.6.5" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.7", install_path: location );
  security_message( port: port, data: report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );