WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Passster < 4.2.6.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via content_protector Shortcode

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its content_protector 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
content-protector
Fixed in 4.2.6.5

References

CVE
CVE-2024-2026
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/880f1f3f-857c-46da-a65c-082348260f89

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Krzysztof Zając
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
658c0edd-afe1-454f-b383-75594d9caf36

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-04-04 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-04-04 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-04-16 (about 2 years ago)

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