Books & Papers <= 0.20210223 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-1156
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 13, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher fuzzyap1

Description

The Books & Papers WordPress plugin through 0.20210223 does not escape its Custom DB prefix settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

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Vulnerability Details for Books & Papers

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug books-papers (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 0.20220219, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 0.20210223
Patched Version
  • 0.20220219

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