CVE-2022-1156 (GCVE-0-2022-1156)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-25 15:51 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:55
VLAI
Title
Books & Papers <= 0.20210223 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Books & Papers WordPress plugin through 0.20210223 does not escape its Custom DB prefix settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_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 Books & Papers Affected: 0.20210223 , ≤ 0.20210223 (custom)
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Credits
fuzzyap1
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