Headline
CVE-2023-49747: WordPress Guest Author plugin <= 2.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - Patchstack
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’) vulnerability in WebFactory Ltd Guest Author allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Guest Author: from n/a through 2.3.
Solution
Update to fix
Update the WordPress Guest Author plugin to the latest available version (at least 2.4).
emad discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress Guest Author Plugin. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.4.
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