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WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP Comments Fields < 4.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not escape Field Error Message, which could allow high-privileged users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Create/edit a Comment Fields (Comments > Comment Fields) and put the following payload in the Error Message setting: "autofocus onfocus=alert(/XSS/)//

The XSS will be triggered in any post 

Affects Plugins

wp-comment-fields
Fixed in version 4.1

References

CVE
CVE-2022-2398

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Rafshanzani Suhada

Submitter

Rafshanzani Suhada

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
0a218789-9a78-49ca-b919-fa61d33d5672

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-07-14 (about 6 months ago)

Added

2022-07-14 (about 6 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-07-14 (about 6 months ago)

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