WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Back To The Top Button < 2.1.7 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitize 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
back-to-the-top-button
Fixed in 2.1.7

References

CVE
CVE-2023-41733
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/back-to-the-top-button/wordpress-back-to-the-top-button-plugin-2-1-5-cross-site-scripting-xss

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rio Darmawan
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
857fa180-87b4-4496-a92e-342b64eb64d7

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-10-02 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-10-02 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-14 (about 2 years ago)

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