Popular Brand Icons - Simple Icons <= 2.7.7 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting

2021-07-05 00:00
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Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.7.8
Affected Version< 2.7.8
CVSS5.4Medium
CVECVE-2021-24503
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Vulnerability Overview

The Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons WordPress plugin before 2.7.8 does not sanitise or validate some of its shortcode parameters, such as "color", "size" or "class", allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to set Cross-Site payload in them. A post made by a contributor would still have to be approved by an admin to have the XSS triggered in the frontend, however, higher privilege users, such as editor could exploit this without the need of approval, and even when the blog disallows the unfiltered_html capability.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.7.8, 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

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