WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

myCred < 2.6.2 - 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

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
mycred
Fixed in 2.6.2

References

CVE
CVE-2023-47853
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/mycred/wordpress-mycred-plugin-2-6-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Abu Hurayra (HurayraIIT)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
9e51ff25-bd74-4356-964d-78303c686688

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-11-20 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-11-29 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-12-06 (about 2 years ago)

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Published
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