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Page Generator Plugin < 1.6.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Proof of Concept

Got to Page Generator -> Keywords -> Add Keyword and put the following payload in the "Terms" field then save the changes: </textarea><script>alert("XSS")</script> 

Affects Plugins

page-generator
Fixed in version 1.6.5

References

CVE
CVE-2022-2100

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Sachin Bahl from eSec Forte Technologies Pvt Ltd

Submitter

Sachin Bahl from eSec Forte Technologies Pvt Ltd

Submitter website
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-bahl-6072084/
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
7d8b7871-baa5-4a54-a9e9-2c9d302cdd12

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-06-27 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2022-06-27 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-06-27 (about 9 months ago)

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