WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
ActivityPub for WordPress < 1.0.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Description
The plugin does not sanitize and escape some data from post content, which could allow contributor and above role to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Proof of Concept
As a contributor, create or edit a post with the payload below while in code editor mode <img src="404" id="!#!#PROTECT0#!#!"/><pre class=" onerror=alert(document.domain) ">xyz</pre> The XSS will be triggered when viewing/previewing the post
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 1.0.1 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Ben Bidner
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
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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