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WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Shared Files < 1.6.57 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings before outputting them in attributes, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in the "Folder for new files" and "Maximum size of uploaded file" settings of the plugin: "><script>alert(/XSS/)</script> 

Affects Plugins

shared-files
Fixed in version 1.6.72

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24736

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Shivam Rai

Submitter

Shivam Rai

Submitter twitter
shivam24rai
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
d72275bd-0c66-4b2a-940d-d5256b5426cc

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-09-15 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2021-09-15 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-08 (about 2 months ago)

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