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Advanced WP Columns <= 2.0.6 - 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 the plugin setting (in input boxes): "><script>alert(/XSS/)</script> to get the XSS trigger. 

Affects Plugins

advanced-wp-columns
No known fix - plugin closed

References

CVE
CVE-2022-3426

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

lucy

Submitter

lucy

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
bc90594e-1018-494a-b473-6416e274c59f

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-11-10 (about 6 months ago)

Added

2022-11-10 (about 6 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-11-10 (about 6 months ago)

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