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CVE-2022-0649 (GCVE-0-2022-0649)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-02 16:05 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:32
VLAI
Title
Adrotate < 5.8.23 - Admin+ XSS via Group Name
Summary
The AdRotate WordPress plugin before 5.8.23 does not escape Group Names, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown AdRotate – Ad manager & AdSense Ads Affected: 5.8.23 , < 5.8.23 (custom)
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Credits
muhamad hidayat
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