WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Transposh WordPress Translation < 1.0.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the a parameter via an AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users when the curl library is installed) before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress
Fixed in 1.0.8

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24910

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.1 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Julien Ahrens
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
b5cbebf4-5749-41a0-8be3-3333853fca17

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-02-22 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2022-07-28 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-04-27 (about 2 years ago)

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