WordPress TranslatePress Plugin < 2.0.9 XSS Vulnerability

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CPE = "cpe:/a:cozmoslabs:translatepress";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.147030");
  script_version("2022-07-19T10:11:08+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-07-19 10:11:08 +0000 (Tue, 19 Jul 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-10-29 04:10:45 +0000 (Fri, 29 Oct 2021)");
  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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-10-04 20:14:00 +0000 (Mon, 04 Oct 2021)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-24610");

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

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

  script_name("WordPress TranslatePress Plugin < 2.0.9 XSS Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_plugin_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/plugin/translatepress-multilingual/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The WordPress plugin 'TanslatePress' 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 plugin does not implement a proper sanitisation on the
  translated strings. The 'trp_sanitize_string' function only removes script tag with a regex,
  still allowing other HTML tags and attributes to execute javascript, which could lead to
  authenticated stored cross-site scripting issues.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WordPress TranslatePress version 2.0.8 and prior.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.0.9 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b87fcc2f-c2eb-4e23-9757-d1c590f26d3f");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/#developers");

  exit(0);
}

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(version: version, test_version: "2.0.9")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.0.9", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);