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Flexi - Guest Submit < 4.20 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape various parameters before outputting them back in some pages such as the user dashboard, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Proof of Concept

Open the following URL when authenticated (as any user): https://example.com/user-dashboard/?search=keyword:<img%20src=1%20onerror=alert(/XSS/)> 

Affects Plugins

flexi
Fixed in version 4.20

References

CVE
CVE-2022-0449

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Felipe Tapia Sasot

Submitter

Felipe Tapia Sasot

Submitter twitter
wyldgoat
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
3cc1bb3c-e124-43d3-bc84-a493561a1387

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-02-16 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2022-02-16 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-08 (about 1 years ago)

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