Ad Inserter Free and Pro <= 2.7.11 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0901
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published April 7, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Taurus Omar
Description

The Ad Inserter Free and Pro WordPress plugins before 2.7.12 do not sanitise and escape the REQUEST_URI before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

References

2 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ad-inserter (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.12
Patched Version
  • 2.7.12
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ad-inserter-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.12
Patched Version
  • 2.7.12
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