VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager < 1.4.9 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.4.9
- Affected Plugin
- VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager / GTM
- Affected Version
< 1.4.9- CVSS
- 5.5Medium
- 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 VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager / GTM WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.4.9. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.4.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2021.
Vulnerability Overview
The VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters in versions before 1.4.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with admin-level privileges 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, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager / GTM < 1.4.9 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 VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager / GTM the fix is 1.4.9: builds < 1.4.9 are affected, anything from 1.4.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.4.9, 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: VDZ Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager / GTM 1.4.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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