WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Posts List Designer by Category < 3.3.3 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-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
post-list-designer
Fixed in 3.3.3

References

CVE
CVE-2024-23502
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/post-list-designer/wordpress-posts-list-designer-by-category-plugin-3-3-2-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
7c99b058-acf1-4e3b-b616-105050be1d64

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-01-19 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-01-24 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-13 (about 2 years ago)

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Published
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Published
2023-07-10
Title
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Published
2025-01-16
Title
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Published
2024-04-03
Title
Better Comments < 1.5.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Published
2025-02-11
Title
CM Map Locations < 2.0.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Published
2025-01-16
Title
Tidy.ro <= 1.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting