Appointment Hour Booking <= 1.3.15 Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-09-06 00:00

Asif Nawaz Minhas

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.3.16

Affected PluginAppointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar

Affected Version< 1.3.16

CVSS5.5Medium

CVECVE-2021-24673

View all Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The Appointment Hour Booking WordPress plugin before 1.3.16 does not escape some of the Calendar Form settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.3.16, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24673 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b53e6c9e-f78f-44e8-ad0f-8cfaaac8b53f

CVSS Vector

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredHigh
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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