id: CVE-2022-0271 info: name: LearnPress <4.1.6 - Cross-Site Scripting author: Akincibor severity: high description: | WordPress LearnPress plugin before 4.1.6 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize and escape the lp-dismiss-notice before outputting it back via the lp_background_single_email AJAX action. reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ad07d9cd-8a75-4f7c-bbbe-3b6b89b699f2 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0271 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2022-0271 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N cvss-score: 7.2 cwe-id: CWE-79 cve-id: CVE-2022-0271 tags: wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,cve,cve2022,learnpress,wpscan,xss requests: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=lp_background_single_email&lp-dismiss-notice=xxx' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - '{"dismissed":"xxx"}' - type: word words: - "text/html" part: header - type: status status: - 200 # Enhanced by md on 2022/09/08