CVE-2022-1896 (GCVE-0-2022-1896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-20 10:26 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:17
VLAI
Title
underConstruction < 1.21 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The underConstruction WordPress plugin before 1.21 does not sanitise or escape the "Display a custom page using your own HTML" setting before outputting it, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiletred_html capability is disallowed.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown underConstruction Affected: 1.21 , < 1.21 (custom)
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Credits
Asif Nawaz Minhas
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