CVE-2022-0189 (GCVE-0-2022-0189)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-28 09:06 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:18
VLAI
Title
WP RSS Aggregator < 4.20 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.20 does not sanitise and escape the id parameter in the wprss_fetch_items_row_action AJAX action before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Krzysztof Zając
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