WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

CC Child Pages < 1.43 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Proof of Concept

Exploit: 

[child_pages link_target='" onmouseover="alert(1)" style="background:red;"']

Note: This should be added to a page and should be a parent page. So the page you add it to must be a child of it, as this lists the child pages.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.43

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-01-05 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-01-05 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-01-05 (about 1 years ago)

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