WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Smaily for WP < 3.1.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
smaily-for-wp
Fixed in 3.1.6

References

CVE
CVE-2024-54286
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/smaily-for-wp/vulnerability/wordpress-smaily-for-wp-plugin-3-1-2-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
SOPROBRO
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
38a9ffc3-8f7f-4925-b9a0-d0f24636c812

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-12-11 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-12-19 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-04-04 (about 1 year ago)

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