Advanced Category Template <= 0.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cross-Site Request Forgery in _form.php

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2023-31072
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published April 24, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher minhtuanact
Description

The Advanced Category Template plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the _form.php file in versions up to, and including, 0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. As the file also lacks a nonce check, this makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. The file is also accessible directly but this is not exploitable in most configurations.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-category-template (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.1
Patched Version
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