WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Yet Another Stars Rating < 3.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise the source parameter before outputting it back in the response via the yasr_load_rankings AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
yet-another-stars-rating
Fixed in 3.0.0

References

CVE
CVE-2022-23980
URL
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2672230

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
ThuraMoeMyint
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
66a04021-114b-45a5-b266-263b62d0912b

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-02-03 (about 4 years ago)
Added
2022-02-08 (about 4 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-13 (about 3 years ago)

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