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WP Downgrade < 1.2.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin only perform client side validation of its "WordPress Target Version" settings, but does not sanitise and escape it server side, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Access the settings of the plugin (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp_downgrade) and remove the max length as well as pattern attribute on the "WordPress Target Version" settings field, then put the following payload in it and save: <script>alert(/XSS/)</script> 

Affects Plugins

wp-downgrade
Fixed in version 1.2.3

References

CVE
CVE-2022-1001
URL
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2696091

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Taurus Omar

Submitter

Taurus Omar

Submitter website
https://taurusomar.com
Submitter twitter
taurusomar_
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
34a7b3cd-e2b5-4891-ab33-af6a2a0eeceb

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-03-22 (about 4 months ago)

Added

2022-03-22 (about 4 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-11 (about 4 months ago)

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