Details ================ Software: WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce Version: 2.1.12 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/ Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-woocommerce-excelling-ecommerce-allows-attackers-ability-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-user-can-do/ CVE: Awaiting assignment CVSS: 6.8 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Description ================ Reflected XSS in WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce allows attackers ability to do almost anything an admin user can do Vulnerability ================ An attacker able to convince a logged-in admin user to visit a link of their choosing (for instance via spearphishing) can execute arbitrary JavaScript within the admin’s browser which could cause it to delete all posts, create new admin users, or leverage other functionality accessible only to admins. Proof of concept ================ If a logged-in administrator visits the following url, a javascript alert will display on in the admin screen: http://localhost/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-reports&range=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3C/script%3E Note that this will not work in a browser with reflected XSS prevention (e.g. Google Chrome) Mitigations ================ Upgrade to version 2.2.3 or later Disclosure policy ================ dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/ Please contact us on security () dxw com to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, plugins () wordpress org) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf. This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days. Timeline ================ 2014-08-28: Discovered 2014-09-15: Reported to Vendor by email 2014-09-15: Requested CVE 2014-09-16: Vendor responded 2014-09-16: Fixed version released 2014-09-17: Published Discovered by dxw: ================ Tom Adams Please visit security.dxw.com for more information. |
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