WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

wpDataTables < 2.1.28 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
wpdatatables
Fixed in 2.1.28

References

CVE
CVE-2022-29432

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ex.Mi
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
aa843f91-583a-4ebf-8328-2f32d2b72b49

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-05-06 (about 4 years ago)
Added
2022-05-21 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-02-14 (about 3 years ago)

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