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Bulk Edit and Create User Profiles < 1.5.14 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the Users Login, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Edit a user via the plugin's feature (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=vgse-bulk-edit-user), add the following payload in the Login Column, then save: "><img src onerror=prompt(/XSS/)>

The XSS will be trigged when opening the Edit Users page again 

Affects Plugins

bulk-edit-user-profiles-in-spreadsheet
Fixed in version 1.5.13

References

CVE
CVE-2022-1089

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Ankur Bakre

Submitter

Ankur Bakre

Submitter website
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-bakre-99320316b/
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
75a9fd23-7fa9-4cb1-a55b-ec5deae5d6fa

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-04-19 (about 2 months ago)

Added

2022-04-19 (about 2 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-19 (about 2 months ago)

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