WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Shortcodes Ultimate < 7.1.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Proof of Concept

Add the following shortcode to a post:

`[su_lightbox src='123"onmouseover="alert(1)"']Click here to open lightbox[/su_lightbox]`

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
shortcodes-ultimate
Fixed in 7.1.2

References

CVE
CVE-2024-3548
URL
https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2024-3548/
YouTube Video

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter website
https://research.cleantalk.org
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
9eef8b29-2c62-4daa-ae90-467ff9be18d8

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-04-24 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2024-04-24 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2024-04-24 (about 2 months ago)

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