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Testimonials (Free < 2.7, Pro < 1.0.8) - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugins do not sanitize and 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

Create new Testimonial, add the following payload to either Position or Testimonial Text field: "></textarea><img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>

Publish it, the payload will be triggered in the backend (in the Testimonial list, and when editing the related testimonial), and in page/posts where the shortcode is embed 

Affects Plugins

super-testimonial
Fixed in version 2.7
super-testimonial-pro
Fixed in version 1.0.8

References

CVE
CVE-2022-3539

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Asif Nawaz Minhas

Submitter

Asif Nawaz Minhas

Submitter website
https://www.hackpertise.com/
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
ab3b0052-1a74-4ba3-b6d2-78cfe56029db

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-10-20 (about 3 months ago)

Added

2022-10-20 (about 3 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-10-20 (about 3 months ago)

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