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CVE-2023-4779User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End <= 20230811 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End Published: (3 years ago)

Description

The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's [usp_gallery] shortcode in versions up to, and including, 20230811 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes like 'before'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-79

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End ≤ 20230811

References and patches

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