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GHSA-3MXR-2H37-XPJX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 22:28 – Updated: 2022-05-24 22:28

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The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS â€“ Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.

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  ],
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  "id": "GHSA-3mxr-2h37-xpjx",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T22:28:08Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T22:28:08Z",
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      "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordPress-LifterLMS-4.21.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html"
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CVE-2021-24308 (GCVE-0-2021-24308)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-24 10:58 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:28

Title

LifterLMS < 4.21.1 - Authenticated Stored XSS in Edit Profile

Summary

The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

WPScan CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 1943 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-44…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/t…	x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordP…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
LifterLMS	LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress	Affected: 4.21.1 , < 4.21.1 (custom)

Credits

captain_hook

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