WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WhatsApp Share Button <= 1.0.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
whatsapp
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-5668

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
8a365735-b598-44b1-ba5f-6329fe4a3090

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-10-18 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-10-20 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-10-20 (about 2 years ago)

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