Donate With QRCode <= 1.4.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24618
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published August 19, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher yangshengcheng@webray.com.cn inc
Description

The Donate With QRCode WordPress plugin before 1.4.5 does not sanitise or escape its QRCode Image setting, which result into a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Furthermore, the plugin also does not have any CSRF and capability checks in place when saving such setting, allowing any authenticated user (as low as subscriber), or unauthenticated user via a CSRF vector to update them and perform such attack.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug donate-with-qrcode (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.4
Patched Version
  • 1.4.5
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