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CVE-2023-5432
The Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'jquery-news-ticker' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3…
Impact
The Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'jquery-news-ticker' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gopiplus | Jquery News Ticker | through 3.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-news-ticker/trunk/jquery-news-ticker.php?rev=2827068#L124
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010828/jquery-news-ticker
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d22d9414-2df9-4528-a426-dce6e83f8d44?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-news-ticker/trunk/jquery-news-ticker.php?rev=2827068#L124
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010828/jquery-news-ticker
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d22d9414-2df9-4528-a426-dce6e83f8d44?source=cve