WP Voting Contest < 3.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0321
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 16, 2022
Last Updated January 21, 2023
Researcher Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew)

Description

The WP Voting Contest WordPress plugin before 3.0 does not sanitise and escape the post_id parameter before outputting it back in the response via the wpvc_social_share_icons AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

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Vulnerability Details for WP Voting Contest Lite

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-voting-contest (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.0
Patched Version
  • 3.0

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