WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Jetpack < 12.8-a.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via block attribute

Description

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

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
jetpack
Fixed in 12.8-a.3

References

CVE
CVE-2023-45050
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/824360ab-c797-465a-8480-baeae941af29

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
4478c8d3-0c7f-43a0-9354-46795e0e6fbc

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-11-16 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-11-23 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-12-01 (about 2 years ago)

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