WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

External Media without Import < 1.0.1 - Reflected XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape multiple parameters (such as url, error, width etc) before outputting them back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against ??? [high privilege users such as admin

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
external-media-without-import
Fixed in 1.0.1

References

CVE
CVE-2017-20183

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Verified
No
WPVDB ID
d0a85c00-c6f1-44a0-9883-dd4f2475a839

Timeline

Publicly Published
2017-10-15 (about 8 years ago)
Added
2023-05-05 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-05-05 (about 3 years ago)

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2023-10-11
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2022-11-21
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Published
2023-06-28
Title
Short URL < 1.6.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting