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Any Hostname <= 1.0.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The plugin does not sanitise or escape its "Allowed hosts" setting, leading to an authenticated stored XSS issue as high privilege users are able to set XSS payloads in it

Proof of Concept

As admin, put the following payload in the "Allowed host" setting of the plugin (/wp-admin/options-general.php#any-hostname): </textarea><script>alert(/XSS/)</script> 

Affects Plugins

any-hostname
No known fix - plugin closed

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24481

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

ABISHEIK M

Submitter

ABISHEIK M

Submitter twitter
abisheikmagesh
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
a4c352de-9815-4dfe-ac51-65b5bfb37438

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-06-28 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-06-28 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2021-08-10 (about 1 years ago)

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