WordPress CVEs

Description

The Nextend Social Login and Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a self-based Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘error_description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, with access to a subscriber-level account, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. NOTE: This vulnerability can be successfully exploited on a vulnerable WordPress instance against an OAuth pre-authenticated higher-level user (e.g., administrator) by leveraging a cross-site request forgery in conjunction with a certain social engineering technique to achieve a critical impact scenario (cross-site scripting to administrator-level account creation). However, successful exploitation requires "Debug mode" to be enabled in the plugin's "Global Settings".

Affected WordPress components

• Nextend Social Login and Register Plugin · nextend-facebook-connect
  Confirmed match Active
  Up to and including 3.1.12
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A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

• nextendweb Nextend Social Login and Register — Up to and including 3.1.12
• nextendweb nextend_social_login — Before 3.1.13

References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3042326/nextend-facebook-connect Patch
• www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bad1d0d-3817-4c7f-a012-5a85b577781e?source=cve Third Party Advisory
• nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record