WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

CPO Shortcodes <= 1.5.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
cpo-shortcodes
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2022-40672

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
ptsfence
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
83f6d300-d094-47f1-975c-df46ac361582

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-09-15 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2022-09-24 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-09-24 (about 3 years ago)

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