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

2024-02-2700:00:00

Dmitrii Ignatyev

stored xss

profile box

widget

admin+

vulnerability

frontend exploit

5.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.0%

JSON

Description The plugin 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)

When creating a new widget, insert the following payload in the "Max width" field: `250" onmouseover="alert(/XSS/)"`

View the site on the frontend to see the XSS