Profile Builder < 3.6.8 – Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting | CVE 2022-0884 | Plugin Vulnerabilities

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape Form Fields titles and description, which could allow high privilege user such as admin to perform Criss-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in a field Title or Description (via wp-admin/admin.php?page=manage-fields): <img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>

The XSS will be triggered in pages using the related field. For example by editing the Name field, XSS will be triggered in Edit Profile and Register page of the plugin

Affects Plugins

profile-builder

Fixed in 3.6.8

References

CVE

URL

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2690776

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10

A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE

CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Abhinav Porwal

Submitter

Abhinav Porwal

Submitter twitter

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID

af06b96c-105f-429c-b2ad-c8c823897dba

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-03-09 (about 3 years ago)

Added

2022-03-09 (about 3 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-17 (about 3 years ago)

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