Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting

Time spent: 10 hours spent in total

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

Pentesting Report

1. (Required) Wordpress < 5.1.1/ CVE-2019-9787: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

• Summary:

  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.0
  • Fixed in version: 5.1.1

• GIF Walkthrough:

• Steps to recreate: Login and enter a page

  Enter the script in the comment section

  Post the comment and enjoy

• Affected source code:

2. (Required) User Enumeration

• Summary:

  • Vulnerability types:User Enumeration
  • Tested in version:4.0
  • Fixed in version:

• GIF Walkthrough:

• Steps to recreate: Enter the login page.

  enter admin as username and a random password.

  If the user exists, WordPress word gives an error message for an incorrect password.

  If the user does not exist, WordPress word gives an error message for an invalid username.

3. (Required) XSS media

• Summary: XSS media
  • Vulnerability types:XSS
  • Tested in version:4.0
  • Fixed in version: 5.1.2
• GIF Walkthrough:

• Steps to recreate:Enter the admin console, create or edit a page.

  click add media

  Choice an image and add the XSS script to the description. Then, change the link page to attachment page.

  Post and then view the page. click the image.

  Done

• Affected source code:

  • Link 1

Assets

List any additional assets, such as scripts or files

XSS cheatsheet(https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XSS_Filter_Evasion_Cheat_Sheet.html/)

Resources

• WordPress Source Browser
• WordPress Developer Reference

GIFs created with Screentogif.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while doing the work

• Bitdefender and Microsoft antivirus was blocking payloads, even after disabling them.
• I did not have permission to view plugins or access to PHPmyadmin database.

License

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