GSD-2024-0561

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2024-01-16 06:02
Details
The Ultimate Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
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    "metadata": {
      "exploitCode": "unknown",
      "remediation": "unknown",
      "reportConfidence": "confirmed",
      "type": "vulnerability"
    },
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        "CVE-2024-0561"
      ],
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      "id": "GSD-2024-0561",
      "modified": "2024-01-16T06:02:03.272772Z",
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    }
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          },
          {
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            "value": "El complemento de WordPress Ultimate Posts Widget anterior a 2.3.1 no valida ni escapa algunas de sus opciones de widget antes de devolverlas en atributos, lo que podr\u00eda permitir a usuarios con altos privilegios, como el administrador, realizar ataques de Cross-Site Scripting Almacenado incluso cuando la capacidad unfiltered_html no est\u00e1 permitida (por ejemplo, en una configuraci\u00f3n multisitio)"
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}


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