WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP Project Manager < 2.6.9 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allowing authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
wedevs-project-manager
Fixed in 2.6.9

References

CVE
CVE-2023-49860
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wedevs-project-manager/wordpress-wp-project-manager-plugin-2-6-7-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
lttn
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
78d898cb-a181-4fe1-830a-371b6d2e18ce

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-12-07 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-12-10 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-01 (about 2 years ago)

Other

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2025-11-01
Title
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Published
2025-04-02
Title
Simplish <= 2.6.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Published
2017-08-08
Title
Bridge Theme <= 11.1 - DOM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2025-04-09
Title
Request Call Back <= 1.4.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting