network-sec

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

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

Pentesting Report

1. (Required) Vulnerability Name or ID

• Summary: Authenticated Stored Cross Site Scripting
  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.2.3
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate: Create a new post. Make the post title new and publish the post. Click preview to see the code being executed in the pop up box.
• Affected source code:
  • Link 1

1. (Required) CVE 2015-5733

• Summary:
  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.2.4
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate: Create a new menu by clicking on Appearance - Menus. Name the menu, go to "current link", enter a url and use the following script for the url text: <script>alert('xss')</script>, which will pop up as soon as you save it.
• Affected source code:
  • Link 1

1. (Required) Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Summary:
  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.2.3
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate: Create a new post. Go to "Text" and enter the following XSS code and publish the post. Click preview to see the code being executed in the pop up box.
• Affected source code:
  • Link 1

Assets

List any additional assets, such as scripts or files

Resources

• WordPress Source Browser
• WordPress Developer Reference

GIFs created with LiceCap.

Notes

As I was trying to determine which vulnerabilities were exploitable by me, I went on some false leads trying to exploit vulnerabilities that were too difficult for me to exploit.

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