Visual Composer Website Builder <= 45.0 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Title'
CVE-2022-2516

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Visual Composer Website Builder, Landing Page Builder, Custom Theme Builder, Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Pages
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 September 2022

Summary

The Visual Composer Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the post/page 'Title' value in versions up to, and including, 45.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with access to the visual composer editor to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

Visual Composer Website Builder, Landing Page Builder, Custom Theme Builder, Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Pages 45.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...
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https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Zhouyuan Yang
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