WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

th23 Social <= 1.2.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in the plugin's settings (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=th23-social) such as Name, Account and Follow Shortcodes: "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/XSS/)>

Affects Plugins

No known fix

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ankur Bakre
Submitter
Ankur Bakre
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-04-19 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-04-19 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-20 (about 2 years ago)

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