WP Voting Contest < 3.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2022-02-16 00:00

Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.0

Affected PluginWP Voting Contest Lite

Affected Version< 3.0

CVSS6.1Medium

CVECVE-2022-0321

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Vulnerability Overview

The WP Voting Contest WordPress plugin before 3.0 does not sanitise and escape the post_id parameter before outputting it back in the response via the wpvc_social_share_icons AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.0, 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

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0321 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73472066-8e5c-46a4-906d-f459a2ebf40d

CVSS Vector

6.1

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

Base

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

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