Multiple Themes (Various Versions) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.4.2
- Affected Theme
- Travel Agency
- Affected Version
< 1.4.2- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Travel Agency WordPress theme, affecting versions < 1.4.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.4.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2022, reported by WPScanTeam.
Vulnerability Overview
Multiple themes for WordPress are vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter found in the '[different-value]_customizer_notify_dismiss_action' and '[different-value]_customizer_notify_dismiss_recommended_plugins' AJAX actions in various versions due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. The following are additional known variants of the AJAX actions: '[different-value]_customizer_notify_dismiss_recommended_action_callback' & '[different-value]_customizer_notify_dismiss_recommended_plugins_callback'
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Travel Agency < 1.4.2 carries this weakness at and, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Travel Agency the fix is 1.4.2: builds < 1.4.2 are affected, anything from 1.4.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.4.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Travel Agency: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Travel Agency 1.4.2 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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