WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Hotjar < 1.0.16 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
hotjar
Fixed in 1.0.16

References

CVE
CVE-2023-1259

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Marco Wotschka
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
d64227b7-a218-4ebf-a63b-1a1130d1c414

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-10-05 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-10-17 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-10-30 (about 2 years ago)

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