WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Recent Posts <= 0.6.14 - 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.

Proof of Concept

[lptw_recentposts color_scheme='" onmouseover="alert(1)"']

Note: Make sure the posts on the site have thumbnails added.

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-02-13 (about 9 months ago)
Added
2023-02-13 (about 9 months ago)
Last Updated
2023-02-13 (about 9 months ago)

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