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
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Melbin K Mathew
Verified
No

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)

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