Storefront Footer Text <= 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-10-11 00:00

Asif Nawaz Minhas

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginStorefront Footer Text

Affected Version<= 1.0.1

CVSS4.8Medium

CVECVE-2021-24607

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Vulnerability Overview

The Storefront Footer Text WordPress plugin through 1.0.1 does not sanitize and escape the "Footer Credit Text" added to pages, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered-html capability is disallowed.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- 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-2021-24607 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a66c2e1e-fd59-424b-bd11-0991a5c32dce

CVSS Vector

4.8

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

Base

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

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