WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

bbPress < 2.6.0 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug

Description

Due to the way post slugs are handled, low privileged users could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
bbpress
Fixed in 2.6.0

References

URL
https://blog.sonarsource.com/wordpress-stored-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Karim El Ouerghemmi and Simon Scannell of SonarSource
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
9f363ace-dec1-4e70-93ce-c2224c3b6b82

Timeline

Publicly Published
2019-11-12 (about 6 years ago)
Added
2022-01-12 (about 4 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-12 (about 3 years ago)

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Title
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