WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Tippy <= 6.2.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
tippy
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-31079

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Mika
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
5fa895e1-5b9a-4dc9-8135-b2444892f4c6

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-04-24 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-08-18 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-08-18 (about 2 years ago)

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