WP Admin Style <= 0.1.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2022-05-23 00:00

Kishore Hariram

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginWP Admin Style

Affected Version<= 0.1.2

CVSS5.5Medium

CVECVE-2022-1814

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Vulnerability Overview

The WP Admin Style WordPress plugin through 0.1.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks 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-2022-1814 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8c755b87-68b9-4a42-bb4d-ecdb4cff6de2

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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