Himer – Social Questions and Answers < 2.1.1 – Contributor+ Stored XSS | CVE 2024-2234 | Theme Vulnerabilities

Description

The theme does not sanitise and escape some of its Post settings, which could allow high privilege users such as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Proof of Concept

1. Add a new post
2. In the Himer "Custom CSS code section, enter the payload: `</style><script>alert(1)</script><style>`
3. Save the post and view on the front end to see the XSS

Affects Themes

Fixed in 2.1.1

References

CVE

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10

A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE

CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Bob Matyas

Submitter

Bob Matyas

Submitter website

https://www.bobmatyas.com

Submitter twitter

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID

37018a3f-895f-48f7-b033-c051e2462830

Timeline

Publicly Published

2024-06-12 (about 1 year ago)

Added

2024-06-12 (about 1 year ago)

Last Updated

2024-06-12 (about 1 year ago)

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