CVE-2024-1401 Profile Box Shortcode And Widget < 1.2.1 Admin+ Stored XSS

2024-03-1914:28:21

WPScan

github.com

wordpress

plugin

stored xss

cross-site scripting

admin

cve-2024-1401

sanitisation

unfiltered_html

multisite

AI Score

5.6

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

The Profile Box Shortcode And Widget WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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 even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:awplife:profile_box_shortcode_and_widget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "awplife",
    "product": "profile_box_shortcode_and_widget",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "1.2.1",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]