WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
WP Spell Check < 9.13 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not escape ignored words, 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)
Proof of Concept
Add a word to ignore (via /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-spellcheck-ignore.php) with the following payload: " style=animation-name:rotation onanimationstart=alert(/XSS/)// The XSS will be trigged each time the ignore dashboard is accessed
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 9.13 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Marco Nappi
Submitter
Marco Nappi
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-12-23 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-12-26 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-12-26 (about 1 years ago)
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