External Links in New Window / New Tab <= 1.42 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-1582
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published May 9, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher WPScanTeam
Description

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not properly escape URLs it concatenates to onclick event handlers, which makes Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks possible.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug open-external-links-in-a-new-window (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.42
Patched Version
  • 1.43
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