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WP Database Backup < 5.9 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not 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 (for example in multisite setup)

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in any of the Destination > FTP Settings: " style=animation-name:rotation onanimationstart=alert(/XSS/)//

The XSS will be triggered when accessing the Destination settings again 

Affects Plugins

wp-database-backup
Fixed in version 5.9

References

CVE
CVE-2022-2271

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH

Submitter

Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH

Submitter twitter
raadfhaddad
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
b064940f-9614-4b7b-b2c4-e79528746833

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-08-15 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2022-08-15 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2023-05-08 (about 26 days ago)

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