CVE-2024-6753 Scanner

Social Auto Poster is a widely used plugin for WordPress that facilitates the posting of content to various social media platforms automatically. It is popular among bloggers, businesses, and content creators who seek to enhance their social media presence by scheduling and automating their posts. The plugin's ease of integration with platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter makes it a preferred choice for digital marketing strategies. Such tools are essential in maintaining a steady online presence, reducing manual workload, and ensuring timely content dissemination.

The detected vulnerability within the Social Auto Poster plugin is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue. XSS vulnerabilities allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users. This particular vulnerability arises from insufficient sanitization and escaping of input data, leading to potential unauthorized script executions. Such vulnerabilities can compromise user security by allowing session hijacking, defacement, or unwanted redirections when users access the compromised pages.

The technical details of this vulnerability focus on the 'mapTypes' parameter within the 'wpw_auto_poster_map_wordpress_post_type' AJAX function. This function fails to properly sanitize input data, allowing an attacker to insert harmful scripts. A specific POST request to the 'admin-ajax.php' endpoint, passing malicious payloads through the 'mapTypes' parameter, exploits this vulnerability. The suboptimal handling of user input in this endpoint is the primary cause, leading to the execution of unauthorized scripts when affected pages are loaded by other users.

When exploited, this vulnerability can lead to significant security breaches including session hijacking, where attackers gain unauthorized access to user accounts. It can also result in defacement, altering the appearance and content of affected web pages, or redirection to malicious sites. These attacks compromise user trust and the credibility of platforms relying on the plugin, potentially resulting in data breaches, loss of user data, or reputational damage to affected websites.

REFERENCES

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6753
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3c268a6d-dfb4-4a9d-802e-80e5c1c53ca2
• https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/social-auto-poster/wordpress-social-auto-poster-plugin-5-3-14-unauthenticated-stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability