CVE-2023-1069: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

March 27, 2023 (updated March 31, 2023)

The Complianz WordPress plugin before 6.4.2, Complianz Premium WordPress plugin before 6.4.2 do not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

References

github.com/Really-Simple-Plugins/complianz-gdpr/commit/e6c2c386cadb78f8cdcded1b000cbd38bd9ff043
github.com/advisories/GHSA-7j4m-f87g-5r9r
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1069
wpscan.com/vulnerability/caacc50c-822e-46e9-bc0b-681349fd0dda

Code Behaviors & Features

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