WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WordPress.com Editing Toolkit < 3.79150 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

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

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
full-site-editing
Fixed in 3.79150

References

CVE
CVE-2023-50879
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/full-site-editing/wordpress-wordpress-com-editing-toolkit-plugin-3-78784-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
1ae3b07c-3821-4fa6-a57a-158db89943e7

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-12-26 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-01-05 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-01-19 (about 2 years ago)

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