Simple Job Board <= 2.9.4 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-39328

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Simple Job Board
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 October 2021

Summary

The Simple Job Board WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping on the $job_board_privacy_policy_label variable echo'd out via the ~/admin/settings/class-simple-job-board-settings-privacy.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 2.9.4. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

Affected Version(s)

Simple Job Board 2.9.4

References

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2...
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https://github.com/BigTiger2020/word-press/blob/main/Simp...
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2617364/simp...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Thinkland Security Team
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