WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Easy Social Box < 4.1.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Proof of Concept

[easy-fb-like-box locale='"; alert(1); var xss="']

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
easy-facebook-like-box
Fixed in 4.1.3

References

CVE
CVE-2022-4754

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
https://lana.codes/
Submitter twitter
LanaCodes
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
d2cc0ab2-9bfd-4a09-ac31-bd90e6da12db

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-01-25 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-01-25 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-03-06 (about 1 years ago)

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