WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Woo Products Widgets For Elementor < 1.0.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Description

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

Proof of Concept

1. Install WooCommerce and add a product.
2. Install Elementor.
3. Insert the following shortcode in a page/post:

[woo-products-widgets-products columns='" onmouseover="alert(1)"']

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
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Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-12-21 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-02-14 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-02-20 (about 1 years ago)

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