WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Art Decoration Shortcode <= 1.5.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
art-decoration-shortcode
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-37994

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
yuyudhn
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
a73389d5-de87-4e31-be39-0df9f228b45d

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-07-19 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-09-13 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-09-13 (about 2 years ago)

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