Broken Link Checker <= 2.4.13 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author URL / Link Log
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author URL / Link Log in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires an administrator to perform the plugin's standard dismiss-and-recheck workflow on a link submitted by the attacker via the WordPress comment author URL field, after which the attacker's HTTP server issues a redirect to a URL containing an HTML/JavaScript payload that is stored verbatim in the link log.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- wpmudev Broken Link Checker
through 2.4.13
References 13
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/includes/admin/table-printer.php#L658
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/includes/links.php#L485
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L291
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L432
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/modules/containers/comment.php#L228
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/includes/admin/table-printer.php#L658
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/includes/links.php#L485
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L291
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L432
- browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/modules/containers/comment.php#L228
- changeset?reponame=&new=3662785%40broken-link-checker%2Ftags%2F2.4.13.1&old=3644192%40broken-link-checker%2Ftags%2F2.4.13
- changeset?old_path=%2Fbroken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13&new_path=%2Fbroken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13.1