CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
25.4%
The WordPress plugin
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:smashballoon:smash_balloon_social_post_feed";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.124255");
script_version("2023-10-13T16:09:03+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-13 16:09:03 +0000 (Fri, 13 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-01-17 09:21:04 +0000 (Tue, 17 Jan 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-01-25 14:45:00 +0000 (Wed, 25 Jan 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-4477");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("WordPress Smash Balloon Social Post Feed Plugin < 4.1.6 XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_plugin_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/plugin/custom-facebook-feed/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The WordPress plugin 'Smash Balloon Social Post Feed' is prone to
a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The plugin does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode
attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as
a contributor to perform stored cross-site scripting attacks against logged-in admins.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WordPress Smash Balloon Social Post Feed prior to version
4.1.6.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.1.6 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c32a4c58-9f2b-4afa-9a21-4b4a5c4c4c41");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "4.1.6")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.1.6", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);