Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting

Time spent: 8 hours spent in total

Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress

Pentesting Report

1. (Required) User Enumeration

• Summary:

  • Vulnerability types: User Enumeration
  • Tested in version: 4.1.2
  • Fixed in version: Not yet fixed

• GIF Walkthrough:

  

• Steps to recreate: When I tried to login with the admin username and a false password, the screen will display "ERROR: The password you entered for the username admin is incorrect." However, if I tried to login with some random username which does not exist, it will show "Error: Invalid username."

• Affected source code:

  • Link 1

2. (Required) CVE-2015-5622

• Summary:

  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.0
  • Fixed in version: 4.1.6

• GIF Walkthrough:

  

• Steps to recreate: We would perform the XSS on the post, and put in <a href="[caption code]=" onmouseover="alert('test')">link</a>.

• Affected source code:

  • Link 1

3. (Required) CVE-2015-5714

• Summary:

  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.0
  • Fixed in version: 4.1.8

• GIF Walkthrough:

  

• Steps to recreate: We would like to exploit XSS vulnerbility in the comment section, so we can put in <script>alert('test')</script>. A pop up window will appear in the comment page.

• Affected source code:

  • Link 1

4. (Optional) Vulnerability Name or ID

• Summary:
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  • Tested in version:
  • Fixed in version:
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate:
• Affected source code:
  • Link 1

5. (Optional) Vulnerability Name or ID

• Summary:
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  • Tested in version:
  • Fixed in version:
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate:
• Affected source code:
  • Link 1

Assets

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Resources

• WordPress Source Browser
• WordPress Developer Reference

GIFs created with LiceCap.

Notes

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License

Copyright [2017] [Ki Yin Kenny Lam]

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