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Woocommerce < 5.2.0 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

When taxes are enabled, the "Additional tax classes" field was not properly sanitised or escaped before being output back in the admin dashboard, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payloads even when the unfiltered_html is disabled

Proof of Concept

Enable taxes (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=general), then put the payload below in the "Additional tax classes" field (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=tax)

<script>alert(/XSS/)</script> 

Affects Plugins

woocommerce
Fixed in version 5.2.0

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24323

YouTube Video

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

m0ze

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
6d262555-7ae4-4e36-add6-4baa34dc3010

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-04-21 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-04-27 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2021-05-18 (about 1 years ago)

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