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Mobile Events Manager < 1.4.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape various of its settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Payload used: <script>alert(/XSS/)</script>

- Put the payload in the TMEM Events > Settings > Events > Event prefix field, then Create an event to trigger the XSS
- Put the payload in the TMEM Events > Settings > Client Zone > Application Name field. The XSS will be triggered thought the plugin
- Put the payload in the TMEM Events > Settings > General > Company Name field. The XSS will be triggered in the admin dashboard 

Affects Plugins

mobile-events-manager
Fixed in version 1.4.4

References

CVE
CVE-2021-25049
URL
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2647987

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Varun thorat

Submitter

Varun thorat

Submitter twitter
Extrins1c
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
227cbf50-59da-4f4c-85da-1959a108ae7e

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-12-24 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-12-24 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-10 (about 9 months ago)

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