id: CVE-2022-0271 info: name: LearnPress < 4.1.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting author: Akincibor severity: medium description: The plugin does not sanitise and escape the lp-dismiss-notice before outputting it back via the lp_background_single_email AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ad07d9cd-8a75-4f7c-bbbe-3b6b89b699f2 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0271 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-2022-0271 cwe-id: CWE-79 tags: xss,wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,cve,cve2022,learnpress requests: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=lp_background_single_email&lp-dismiss-notice=xxx' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - '{"dismissed":"xxx"}' - type: word words: - "text/html" part: header - type: status status: - 200