Awesome Support < 6.1.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2023-10-1600:00:00

Alex Sanford

wpscan.com

plugin security vulnerability

reflected cross-site scripting

admin user risk

web application security

AI Score

5.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

17.0%

JSON

Description The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

PoC

Visit the following URL as an admin user, with any valid ticket ID. Press the access key combination to trigger XSS (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+X on Firefox on MacOS). https://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=TICKET_ID"+accessKey%3DX+onclick%3Dalert(%2Fxss%2F)+"&action;=edit