Time spent: About 5-5:30 hours spent in total
Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress
- (Required) WordPress <= 4.2.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (8111)
- Summary:
- Vulnerability types: Cross Site Scripting
- Tested in version: 4.2
- Fixed in version: 4.2.10
- GIF Walkthrough: xss1.gif
- Steps to recreate: Single step in: Link 1
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- (Required) Vulnerability Name or ID
- Summary: WordPress <= 4.3 - Authenticated Shortcode Tags Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (8186)
- Vulnerability types: Cross Site Scripting
- Tested in version: 4.2
- Fixed in version: 4.3.1
- GIF Walkthrough: xss2.gif
- Steps to recreate: Single Step in: Link 1
- Affected source code:
- (Required) WordPress <= 4.2.3 - Legacy Theme Preview Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Summary:
- Vulnerability types: Cross Site Scripting
- Tested in version: 4.2
- Fixed in version: 4.2.3
- GIF Walkthrough: xss3.gif
- Steps to recreate: Link 1
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Describe any challenges encountered while doing the work: Performing exploits that weren't XSS was very dificult.
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