WPQA < 5.2 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Profile fields
CVE-2022-1051

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 May 2022

Badges

πŸ‘Ύ Exploit Exists🟑 Public PoC

Summary

The WPQA Builder Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2, used as a companion plugin for the Discy and Himer , does not sanitise and escape the city, phone or profile credentials fields when outputting it in the profile page, allowing any authenticated user to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected Version(s)

WPQA Builder Plugin 5.2

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • 🟑

    Public PoC available

  • πŸ‘Ύ

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Veshraj Ghimire
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