Stored Cross-Site Scripting in All in One SEO Pack Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-0586

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic
Vendor
CVE Published:
24 February 2023

Summary

The All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress exhibits a vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with Contributor or higher roles to exploit stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This vulnerability arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping across multiple input parameters, enabling attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts are executed whenever a user visits the compromised pages, risking the integrity of the user session and potentially leading to further attacks.

Affected Version(s)

All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic * <= 4.2.9

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

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

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Ivan Kuzymchak
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