WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Broken Link Checker < 1.11.20 - Admin+ Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in the Youtube API Key settings and save: test"><script>alert(/XSS/)</script>.

The XSS will be triggered when viewing the settings page again

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.11.20

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jihoon Lee (AhnLab)
Submitter
Jihoon Lee (AhnLab)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-11-11 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-11-11 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-12-16 (about 1 years ago)

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