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Flowplayer Video Player < 1.0.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Proof of Concept

As a contributor, put, the following shortcode in a page/post

[flowplayer src='" onerror=alert(/XSS/) "']

The XSS will be triggered when viewing/previewing the page/post 

Affects Plugins

flowplayer6-video-player
Fixed in version 1.0.5

References

CVE
CVE-2022-3984

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Lana Codes

Submitter

Lana Codes

Submitter website
https://lana.codes/
Submitter twitter
LanaCodes
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
b4694e9d-3f38-4295-929d-0ad37b3cbbaa

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-11-22 (about 10 months ago)

Added

2022-11-22 (about 10 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-12-05 (about 9 months ago)

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