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WordPress SEO Alert 1.59 Cross Site Scripting
WordPress SEO Alert plugin versions 1.59 and below suffer from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Tittle:WordPress Plugin SEO ALert <= 1.59 - Admin+ Stored XSSReferences:CVE-2023-2225Author:Taurus Omar Description:The plugin 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).Affects Plugins:SEO ALert - No known fix - plugin closedProof of Concept:1. Go to Vanilla Beans » SEO Alert. 2. In "Slack Alert for" » "Slack Channel" add payload: "><audio src=x onerror=confirm("XSS")> 3. Save to get the XSS trigger. Classification:Type XSS OWASP top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)CWE-79wpScan:https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0af475ba-5c02-4f62-876d-6235a745bbd6Related news
CVE-2023-2225
The SEO ALert WordPress plugin through 1.59 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).