WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Ultimate Member < 2.1.20 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The plugin did not properly sanitise, validate or encode the query string when generating a link to edit user's own profile, leading to an authenticated reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue. Knowledge of the targeted username is required to exploit this, and attackers would then need to make the related logged in user open a malicious link.

Proof of Concept

Log on to the blog and open the following link: https://example.com/user/[your username]/?"><script>alert("XSS")</script>

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.1.20

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
riki aji
Submitter
System_r
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-05-07 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2021-05-07 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2021-05-08 (about 3 years ago)

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