WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Post SMTP < 2.1.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not escape some of its settings before outputting them in the admins dashboard, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Proof of Concept
Put the following payload in the Post SMTP > Settings > Advanced > "Temporary Directory" settings: /tmp" style=animation-name:rotation onanimationstart=alert(/XSS/)//
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 2.1.4 References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH
Submitter
Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2022-08-22 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-08-22 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-05-11 (about 1 years ago)
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