SearchIQ – The Search Solution <= 3.8 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

7.2
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0780
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published April 11, 2022
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher cydave

Description

The SearchIQ WordPress plugin before 3.9 contains a flag to disable the verification of CSRF nonces, granting unauthenticated attackers access to the siq_ajax AJAX action and allowing them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping in the customCss parameter

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Vulnerability Details for SearchIQ – The Search Solution

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug searchiq (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8
Patched Version
  • 3.9

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