WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Text Hover < 4.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not sanitize and escape the text to hover, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Proof of Concept
As admin, put the following in the plugin's settings: test => "><script>alert(/XSS/)</script> Tick the "Enable text hover in comments?", post a comment on a post/page with the 'test' word and hover over it to trigger the XSS Can also edit a post and put the 'test' word in it to achieve the same result
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 4.2 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Rohan Chaudhari
Submitter
Rohan Chaudhari
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-03-28 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-03-28 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-09 (about 2 years ago)
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