HTTP: WordPress LearnPress Plugin Stored Cross-Site Scripting
This signature detects attempts to exploit a known cross-site scripting vulnerability against WordPress LearnPress Plugin. It is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. Attackers can steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
Extended Description
The LearnPress WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping on the $custom_profile parameter found in the ~/inc/admin/views/backend-user-profile.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 4.1.3.1. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled. Please note that this is seperate from CVE-2021-24702.
Affected Products
Thimpress learnpress
References
CVE: CVE-2021-39348
URL: https://github.com/BigTiger2020/word-press/blob/main/LearnPress.md
Short Name
HTTP:XSS:WRDPRS-LEARNPRES-PLGIN
Severity
Warning
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
HTTP
Keywords
CVE-2021-39348 Cross-Site LearnPress Plugin Scripting Stored WordPress
Release Date
11/18/2021
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3437
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors
Thimpress
CVSS Score
3.5