Basil recipe theme vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Key Information
- Vendor
- Xjsv
- Status
- Basil
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 1 July 2024
Summary
The Basil recipe theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the `post_title` parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page. Because the of the default WordPress validation, it is not possible to insert the payload directly but if the Cooked plugin is installed, it is possible to create a recipe post type (cp_recipe) and inject the payload in the title field. Version 2.0.5 contains a patch for the issue.
Affected Version(s)
Basil = < 2.0.5
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
Vulnerability published.
Vulnerability Reserved.