WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP Humans.txt <= 1.0.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in the Humans.txt texarea settings of the plugin and save: xss</textarea><script>alert(/XSS/)</script>// 

Affects Plugins

No known fix

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rahul Selvakumar
Submitter
Rahul Selvakumar
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-10-03 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-10-03 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-10-03 (about 1 years ago)

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