Help Center by BestWebSoft < 0.1.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2017-04-17 00:00

Neven Birusk

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 0.1.5

Affected PluginTimesheet by BestWebSoft

Affected Version< 0.1.5

CVSS6.1Medium

CVECVE-2017-18590

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Vulnerability Overview

The Help Center by BestWebSoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to 0.1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'category' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser granted they can trick a victim into performing an action, such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 0.1.5, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18590 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e0f903a-e882-4de9-953a-c377b591004e

CVSS Vector

6.1

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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