WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher <= 2.6.11 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24793
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 29, 2021
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher Huy Nguyen

Description

The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.6.12 does not escape the Feed URL added to a campaign before outputting it in an attribute, 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 WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpematico (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.6.12, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.6.12
Patched Version
  • 2.6.12

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