WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
WP phpMyAdmin < 5.2.0.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Proof of Concept
Put the following payload in the "phpMyAdmin on hosting" settings (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-phpmyadmin-extension) of the plugin: "autofocus onfocus=alert(/XSS/)//
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 5.2.0.4 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH
Submitter
Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-08-01 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-08-01 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-05-01 (about 7 months ago)
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