WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Password Protected < 2.6.7 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape its Google Captcha Site Key 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)

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
password-protected
Fixed in 2.6.7

References

CVE
CVE-2024-0656
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aba36c3b-beae-4c47-8aa8-5012a7a838ce

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Felipe Restrepo Rodriguez (pfelilpe)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
be5e2504-bd1b-4023-82f6-08661e747238

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-02-19 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-02-20 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-02-20 (about 2 years ago)

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