WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Skype Legacy Buttons <= 3.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

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 admin

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
skype-online-status
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-5615

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
e73c6a82-5e2b-4241-88c9-3f7558b58776

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-10-17 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-10-20 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-10-20 (about 2 years ago)

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