WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP Edit Username < 1.0.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
wp-edit-username
Fixed in 1.0.6

References

CVE
CVE-2023-47527
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wp-edit-username/wordpress-wp-edit-username-plugin-1-0-5-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jeongwoo-Lee(Roronoa)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
5b9b17fd-1ed5-4c69-81a7-fa7698d5d0f0

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-12-19 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-12-23 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-13 (about 1 year ago)

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