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CVE-2022-28290 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in Welaunch

Severity:Medium

Vendor

Welaunch

Affected Product

WordPress Country Selector

CVE

CVE-2022-28290

Securin ID

2022-CSW-03-1055

Status

Fixed

Date

March 25, 2022

Description

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting attacks are also known as non-persistent attacks which occur when a malicious script is reflected back from a web application to the victim’s browser. The script is activated through a link, which sends a request to the website with a vulnerability that enables the execution of malicious scripts.

Proof of Concept (POC):

  1. After installing the Country Selector Plugin, go to the homepage of the WordPress site.

  2. Capture all the requests and find the POST request to the AJAX call of check_country_selector.

Figure 01: Original AJAX Request

  1. Enter the payload – <img+src=x+onerror=alert(document.cookie)> in the country parameter and <img+src=x+onerror=alert(document.cookie)> in the lang parameter.

Figure 02: Injected XSS Payloads in “country” and “lang” Parameter

  1. Forward the request

  2. Injected XSS payload will be reflected and triggered on the user’s browser.

Figure 03: Injected JavaScript Code for “lang” and “country” Parameters is Executed On The User’s Browser

Figure 04: The Default Cross-Site Scripting Mitigation Setting in wp.config file to Prevent XSS Attacks

Impact

An attacker can perform the following:

  • Inject malicious code into the vulnerable variable and exploit the application through the Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.

  • Modify the code and get the session information of other users.

  • Compromise the user machine.

Remediations

  • Perform context-sensitive encoding of entrusted input before it is echoed back to a browser using an encoding library throughout the application.

  • Implement input validation for special characters on all the variables that are reflected in the browser and stored in the database.

  • Explicitly set the character set encoding for each page generated by the webserver.

  • Encode dynamic output elements and filter specific characters in dynamic elements.

Timeline

March 24, 2022: Discovered in `WordPress Country Selector Plugin Version 1.6.5` Product

March 25, 2022: Reported to Welaunch

March 29, 2022: Acknowledged by Welaunch

March 30, 2022: Vendor Released Patch for XSS Vulnerability

March 31, 2022: CSW Assigned the CVE-2022-28290

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