📄 Description (English)
Ultimate Product Catalog 5.8.2 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts through the price parameter. Attackers can submit POST requests to post.php with HTML/JavaScript payloads in the price field to execute arbitrary code when the product is viewed.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
Ultimate Product Catalog 5.8.2 contains a stored XSS vulnerability in the price parameter that allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts. When products are viewed, the injected code executes in users' browsers, potentially compromising session tokens, credentials, and sensitive data. This vulnerability poses a moderate risk to e-commerce platforms and product management systems used by Saudi retailers and enterprises.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: May 13, 2026 08:49
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
This vulnerability primarily affects Saudi e-commerce platforms, retail management systems, and SMEs using Ultimate Product Catalog. High-risk sectors include: (1) Retail and E-commerce - product catalog systems managing inventory and pricing; (2) Hospitality and Tourism - hotel and restaurant management systems; (3) Manufacturing and Distribution - product management platforms. The stored nature of the XSS means all users viewing affected products are at risk. Attackers with legitimate access (employees, vendors) can compromise customer sessions and steal payment information or personal data.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Retail and E-commerce
Hospitality and Tourism
Manufacturing and Distribution
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Wholesale and Trading
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
6.2
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
Immediate Actions:
1. Disable or restrict access to Ultimate Product Catalog 5.8.2 until patching is available
2. Audit all product entries for suspicious HTML/JavaScript in price fields using regex patterns: /<script|javascript:|onerror=|onload=/i
3. Review access logs for post.php modifications in the past 90 days
4. Notify all users to clear browser cache and re-authenticate
Compensating Controls:
1. Implement Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to block POST requests to post.php containing script tags or event handlers
2. Apply Content Security Policy (CSP) headers: Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'
3. Enable HTML entity encoding for all price field outputs in templates
4. Restrict post.php access to specific IP ranges and require multi-factor authentication
5. Implement input validation: price field should only accept numeric values and currency symbols
Detection Rules:
1. Monitor POST requests to post.php with payloads containing: <script>, javascript:, onerror=, onload=, onclick=
2. Alert on price parameter values exceeding 50 characters
3. Log and review all authenticated user modifications to product pricing
4. Search database for price field entries containing HTML tags
Patching:
1. Contact Ultimate Product Catalog vendor for security updates
2. If no patch available, consider migrating to alternative catalog solutions with active security support
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
الإجراءات الفورية:
1. تعطيل أو تقييد الوصول إلى Ultimate Product Catalog 5.8.2 حتى يتوفر التصحيح
2. تدقيق جميع إدخالات المنتجات بحثاً عن HTML/JavaScript مريب في حقول الأسعار باستخدام أنماط regex
3. مراجعة سجلات الوصول لتعديلات post.php في آخر 90 يوماً
4. إخطار جميع المستخدمين بمسح ذاكرة التخزين المؤقت للمتصفح وإعادة المصادقة
الضوابط التعويضية:
1. تطبيق قواعد جدار حماية تطبيقات الويب (WAF) لحظر طلبات POST إلى post.php التي تحتوي على علامات script أو معالجات أحداث
2. تطبيق رؤوس Content Security Policy (CSP)
3. تفعيل ترميز كيان HTML لجميع مخرجات حقول الأسعار
4. تقييد الوصول إلى post.php بنطاقات IP محددة والمصادقة متعددة العوامل
5. تطبيق التحقق من صحة الإدخال: يجب أن يقبل حقل السعر فقط القيم الرقمية والرموز النقدية
قواعد الكشف:
1. مراقبة طلبات POST إلى post.php التي تحتوي على حمولات ضارة
2. تنبيهات عند تجاوز قيم معامل السعر 50 حرفاً
3. تسجيل ومراجعة جميع تعديلات المستخدمين المصرح لهم على تسعير المنتجات
4. البحث في قاعدة البيانات عن إدخالات حقول الأسعار التي تحتوي على علامات HTML
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
5.1.1 - Input validation and output encoding controls
5.2.1 - Web application security requirements
5.3.2 - Secure coding practices
6.1.1 - Vulnerability management and patching
🔵 SAMA CSF
ID.SC-7 - Software, firmware, and information integrity
PR.DS-1 - Data security management
PR.IP-1 - Security policy and process establishment
DE.CM-1 - Detection and analysis
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
A.14.2.1 - Secure development policy
A.14.2.5 - Secure development environment
A.14.3.1 - Separation of development, test and production environments
A.12.6.1 - Management of technical vulnerabilities
🟣 PCI DSS v4.0.1
6.5.1 - Injection flaws prevention
6.5.7 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention
11.2.2 - Vulnerability scanning requirements
🔗 References & Sources 4
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https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-product-catalogue/
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https://www.etoilewebdesign.com
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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50534
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https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-plugin-ultimate-product-catalog-stored-x...
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