Music Player for WooCommerce <= 1.0.172 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.173
- Affected Plugin
- Music Player for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.172- CVSS
- 6.8Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Music Player for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.172. It carries a CVSS score of 6.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.173; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2022.
Vulnerability Overview
The Music Player for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting several parameters in versions up to, and including, 1.0.172 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Music Player for WooCommerce <= 1.0.172 takes an account at Admin level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Music Player for WooCommerce the fix is 1.0.173: builds <= 1.0.172 are affected, anything from 1.0.173 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.173, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Admin access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Music Player for WooCommerce 1.0.173 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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