WP phpMyAdmin < 5.2.0.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2022-08-0100:00:00

Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH

4.8 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

24.7%

JSON

The plugin does not escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Put the following payload in the "phpMyAdmin on hosting" settings (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-phpmyadmin-extension) of the plugin: "autofocus onfocus=alert(/XSS/)//