WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Elegant Testimonial <= 1.1.6 - Multiple Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The name, company and text fields used while adding a testimonial to a page was found to be vulnerable to stored XSS, as they did not sanitize user given input properly before publishing the post. It is triggered when a user loads a page where the plugin shortcode is used. All WordPress websites using WP Elegant Testimonial Plugin version 1.1.6 and below are affected.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Melbin K Mathew
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2020-08-19 (about 5 years ago)
Added
2020-08-19 (about 5 years ago)
Last Updated
2020-08-20 (about 5 years ago)