Books & Papers <= 0.20210223 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2022-1156
CVSS	Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published	April 13, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	fuzzyap1

Description

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

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	books-papers (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 0.20210223
Patched Version	0.20220219

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