Project 7 - WordPress Pen Testing

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

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

Pen Testing Report

1. (Required) Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

• Summary:
  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.2.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.3.2
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate: Become administrator aka "hacker" account, then use the exploit by inserting this malicious script into the post: <a href="[caption code=">]</a><a title=" onmouseover=alert('Pwned!') ">link</a>
• Affected source code:
  • Link 1

2. (Required) XSS vulnerability in Page's Edit-page

• Summary:
  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.2.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.7.1
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate: Go to the post title and paste this code <img src="#" ONERROR="alert('Hacked!')"/>
• [] Affected source code:

3. (Required) XSS vulnerability in comment section using SVG onload

• Summary:
  • Vulnerability types: XSS
  • Tested in version: 4.2.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.7.0
• GIF Walkthrough:
• Steps to recreate: comment on a post this code: <svg/onload=alert('Hacked!')>
• [] Affected source code:

Resources

• WordPress Source Browser
• WordPress Developer Reference

Notes

When i was attempting to exploit the wordpress vulnerabilities, I found that the exploits were similar to ones found online. However, there were some differences in my own implementation compared to those found online. My implementation is original because i have tried attempting this many times.

License

Copyright [2023] [Luciano Scarpaci]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.