WP User Profile Avatar <= 1.0.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

2024-03-2500:00:00

Dmitrii Ignatyev

wordpress

user profile

avatar

xss

stored

contributor+

security

8.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

Description 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

Enter the following shortcode in a post, and hover the resulting HTML.

[user_profile_avatar size='" onmouseover="alert(/XSS/)"']

References

research.cleantalk.org/cve-2023-6067/