WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Event post < 5.9.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
event-post
Fixed in 5.9.1

References

CVE
CVE-2023-49179
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/event-post/wordpress-event-post-plugin-5-8-6-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
thiennv
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
3ff134a0-a979-4134-90d4-ad42a31122c1

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-11-29 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-12-08 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-14 (about 2 years ago)

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Published
2014-08-01
Title
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Published
2016-08-03
Title
Activity Log <= 2.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in 'page'
Published
2021-03-17
Title
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