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The WP-Ban WordPress plugin before 1.69.1 does not...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jan 3, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 2, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The WP-Ban WordPress plugin before 1.69.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, 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).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 2, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 3, 2023
Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-4260

GHSA ID

GHSA-7wx2-wjvp-v5h2

Source code

No known source code

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