CVE-2023-5942 Medialist < 1.4.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

2023-11-2716:22:05

WPScan

github.com

medialist

wordpress plugin

1.4.1

stored cross-site scripting

AI Score

5.8

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

The Medialist WordPress plugin before 1.4.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:medialist:medialist:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "medialist",
    "product": "medialist",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "1.4.1",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]