WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Easy Media Download < 1.1.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The ‘Button Text’ field in used while posting a file download was found to be vulnerable to stored XSS, as they did not sanitize user given input properly before publishing the post. It is triggered when a users loads a page where the plugin shortcode is used. All WordPress websites using Easy Media Download by naa986 version 1.1.4 and below are affected.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.1.5

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Melbin K Mathew
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2020-08-17 (about 5 years ago)
Added
2020-08-17 (about 5 years ago)
Last Updated
2021-09-01 (about 4 years ago)

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