CVE-2022-28290

published 2022-04-25

CVE-2022-28290: Reflective Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in WordPress Country Selector Plugin Version 1.6.5. The XSS payload executes whenever the user tries to access…

Priority P1 79 medium 6.1 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI R S C C L I L A N

ITW EXPLOIT VulnCheck KEV

Reflective Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in WordPress Country Selector Plugin Version 1.6.5. The XSS payload executes whenever the user tries to access the country selector page with the specified payload as a part of the HTTP request

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
welaunch	wordpress_country_selector	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

sigma

nuclei template matching cookie 'country_selector_' in WordPress Country Selector plugin

• → Reflected XSS triggers when a user accesses the country selector page with a malicious payload in the HTTP request; monitor GET/POST requests to the country selector page for script injection patterns in parameters. ↗
• → Detect presence of the WordPress Country Selector plugin (version 1.6.5) by identifying the 'country_selector_' cookie in HTTP traffic; a 200 OK response with text/html content-type alongside this cookie indicates a potentially vulnerable instance.

• · The vulnerability is specific to WordPress Country Selector Plugin Version 1.6.5; other versions may not be affected. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

vulncheck 6.1 MEDIUM

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