WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP Social Widget < 2.2.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Proof of Concept

[wpsw facebook='" onmouseover="alert(1)"' background_color='red']

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.2.4

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
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Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-01-06 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-01-06 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-01-06 (about 1 years ago)

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