WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

EmbedPress < 3.9.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its embed_oembed_html 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
embedpress
Fixed in 3.9.6

References

CVE
CVE-2023-6986
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ceae0115-268c-401b-876b-3477d10c10e6

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
643d3453-e3a4-40ee-953f-c8149373ac59

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-01-02 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-01-03 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-01-03 (about 2 years ago)

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