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WordPress WP Downgrade Plugin < 1.2.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Author
Taurus Omar
Risk
[
Security Risk Medium
]
0day-ID
0day-ID-37601
Category
web applications
Date add
07-04-2022
CVE
CVE-2022-1001
Platform
php
Tittle:
WordPress Plugin WP Downgrade < 1.2.3 - Admin + Stored Cross-Site Scripting

References:
CVE-2022-1001

Author:
Taurus Omar 

Description:
The plugin only perform client side validation of its "WordPress Target Version" settings, but does not sanitise and escape it server side, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Affects Plugins:
wp-downgrade - Fixed in version 1.2.3

Proof of Concept:
Access the settings of the plugin (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp_downgrade) and remove the max length as well as pattern attribute on the "WordPress Target Version" settings field, then put the following payload in it and save: <script>alert(/XSS/)</script> 

Classification
Type XSS 
OWASP top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE-79

wpScan:
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/85582b4f-a40a-4394-9834-0c88c5dc57ba

TracWordpress:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2696091

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