WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Slideshow CK < 1.4.10 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitize and escape Slide's descriptions, which could allow high-privileged users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Create/edit a Slideshow, add a Slide and put the following payload in the Description <img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>

The XSS will be triggered in page/post where the Slideshow is embed

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.4.10

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Fayçal CHENA
Submitter
Fayçal CHENA
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-05-18 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-05-18 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-02-09 (about 1 years ago)

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