Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA < 2.4.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

2023-03-0600:00:00

wpvulndb

gdpr

ccpa

compliance

stored xss

contributor

cookies policy link

exploit

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.3%

JSON

The plugin 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

As a contributor, put the below shortcode in a post, preview/view it and move the mouse over the red text to trigger the XSS

[cookies_policy_link link='" style=background-color:red; onmouseover=alert(/XSS/)//']

[cookies_policy_link class='" style=background-color:red; onmouseover=alert(/XSS/)//']

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.3%

JSON

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