WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
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
Fixed in 2.7
Fixed in 1.0.8 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-10-20 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-10-20 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-10-20 (about 1 years ago)
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