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WordPress Popular Posts < 5.3.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the widget-wpp[2][post_type] parameter before outputting it in the page, which could lead to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

Affects Plugins

wordpress-popular-posts
Fixed in version 5.3.4

References

CVE
CVE-2021-36872

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Visse

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
f1569584-e829-4d09-9535-bd5b11331339

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-07-03 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-09-23 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-09 (about 9 months ago)

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