WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Horizontal scrolling announcement for WordPress <= 9.2 Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some parameters, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
horizontal-scrolling-announcement
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-5001

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
929e7ac3-f72b-4104-a074-4c7b6974f3bc

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-09-15 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-09-18 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-09-18 (about 2 years ago)

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