Overview
- Description
- The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.4
- Impact score
- 2.7
- Exploitability score
- 2.3
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 3.5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 6.8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- contact@wpscan.com
- CWE-79
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wpkube:about_author_box:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7674408C-4C73-4B91-B7F2-70D4F4A2FA10",
"versionEndExcluding": "1.0.2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]