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wpvulndbSachin Bahl from eSec Forte Technologies Pvt LtdWPVDB-ID:A11628E4-F47B-42D8-9C09-7536D49FCE4C
HistoryJun 20, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

WP Duplicate Page < 1.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

2022-06-2000:00:00
Sachin Bahl from eSec Forte Technologies Pvt Ltd
wpscan.com
4
cross site scripting
admin privilege
xss payload
database
javascript payload
security vulnerability

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

24.8%

The plugin does not sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed.

PoC

1. Navigate to Settings ->Duplicate Page -> Duplicate Page Settings and enter the XSS payload into the Duplicate Page Link Text input field. 2. Click Save Changes. 3. You will observe that the payload successfully got stored into the database and when you are triggering the same functionality at that time JavaScript payload is executing successfully and we are getting a pop-up. 4. Payload Used: "onmouseover=alert(/XSS/)//

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

24.8%

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