WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WHA Puzzle <= 1.0.9 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
wha-puzzle
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2022-45839

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.8 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
thiennv
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
04dac939-c04b-45d7-9982-b1a6492d0e63

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-11-24 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2023-04-18 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-04-18 (about 2 years ago)

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