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GHSA-W5VH-Q269-M424

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 22:29 – Updated: 2024-04-04 03:11

Details

The About Me widget of the Youzify â€“ BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership WordPress plugin before 1.0.7 does not properly sanitise its Biography field, allowing any authenticated user to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in it, which will be executed when viewing the affected user profile. This could allow a low privilege user to gain unauthorised access to the admin side of the blog by targeting an admin, inducing them to view their profile with a malicious payload adding a rogue account for example.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2024-04-04T03:11:19Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T22:29:01Z",
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CVE-2021-24443 (GCVE-0-2021-24443)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-02 10:31 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:28

Title

Youzify < 1.0.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Biography

Summary

The About Me widget of the Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership WordPress plugin before 1.0.7 does not properly sanitise its Biography field, allowing any authenticated user to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in it, which will be executed when viewing the affected user profile. This could allow a low privilege user to gain unauthorised access to the admin side of the blog by targeting an admin, inducing them to view their profile with a malicious payload adding a rogue account for example.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

WPScan mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a4432acd-df49-4a…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Unknown	Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress	Affected: 1.0.7 , < 1.0.7 (custom)

Credits

Phu Tran from techlabcorp.com

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