WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Proof of Concept
Put the following payload in any of the plugins settings (Settings > Highlight Focus): "><img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>
Affects Plugins
No known fix References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Mariam Tariq
Submitter
Mariam Tariq - HunterSherlock
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-10-13 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-10-13 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-10-13 (about 1 years ago)
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