WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Loading Page with Loading Screen < 1.0.83 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Proof of Concept
Go to Settings -> Loading Page, in the "Display loading screen in" settings, select either "specific pages" or "specific post types" and ut the following payload in the related text field: "onmouseover=alert(/XSS/)//
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 1.0.83 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Nikhil Kapoor
Submitter
Nikhil Kapoor
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-06-23 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-06-23 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-04-01 (about 1 years ago)
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