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CVE-2024-1989

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Vulnerability Overview

CVE Name

CVE-2024-1989

Severity

6.4

Medium

CVE Description

The Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'Sassy_Social_Share' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.58 due to insufficient input sanitization and output ...

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Script Type

Remediation script

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Detecting vulnerable instance kali@kali:~$ python3 detection.py --url http://localhost [*] Started the scan... [+] The WordPress instance seems to be vulnerable to CVE-2024-1989. kali@kali:~$ The detection script reports the instance to be vulnerable! Patching vulnerable instance kali@kali:~$ docker cp remediation.sh cve-2024-1698_wordpress_1:/tmp kali@kali:~$ docker exec -it cve-2024-1698_wordpress_1 bash -c "bash /tmp/remediation.sh" Installing Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share (3.3.59) Downloading installation package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sassy-social-share.zip... Using cached file '/root/.wp-cli/cache/plugin/sassy-social-share-3.3.59.zip'... Unpacking the package... Installing the plugin... Removing the old version of the plugin... Plugin updated successfully. Success: Installed 1 of 1 plugins. [+] WordPress instance successfully patched and protected from CVE-2024-1989! kali@kali:~$ python3 detection.py --url http://localhost [*] Started the scan... [-] The WordPress instance seems NOT to be vulnerable to CVE-2024-1989. kali@kali:~$ As you can clearly notice in the last output line (from the detection script), the vulnerable instance has successfully been patched!

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#!/bin/bash

curl -s -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
then
        echo "Failed to download WP CLI.. Try installing wp-cli again!"
        rm -f wp-cli.phar
        exit -1
fi

php wp-cli.phar --info >/dev/null
if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
then
        echo "Failed to properly download WP CLI.. Try installing wp-cli again!"
        rm -f wp-cli.phar
        exit -2
fi

chmod +x wp-cli.phar

./wp-cli.phar plugin update sassy-social-share --version=3.3.59 --allow-root
if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
then
        echo "Failed to update Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share plugin.. Try again later!"
        rm -f wp-cli.phar
        exit -3
fi

# Uncomment to also automate the plugin activation.
# ./wp-cli.phar plugin activate sassy-social-share --allow-root
# if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
# then
#       echo "Failed to activate the Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share plugin.. Try again later!"
#       rm wp-cli.phar
#       exit -4
# fi

curr_ver=$(curl -s http://localhost/wp-content/plugins/sassy-social-share/readme.txt | grep "Stable tag:" | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' \n\r')

dpkg --compare-versions $curr_ver gt 3.3.58

if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]]
then
        echo "[+] WordPress instance successfully patched and protected from CVE-2024-1989!"
else
        echo "[-] WordPress instance is yet to be patched for CVE-2024-1989."
fi

rm wp-cli.phar

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