Image Hover Effects Ultimate <= 9.7.3 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Media URL

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-2935
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published August 31, 2022
Last Updated March 17, 2025
Researcher Zhouyuan Yang
Description

The Image Hover Effects Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Media Image URL value that can be added to an Image Hover in versions up to, and including, 9.7.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. By default, the plugin only allows administrators access to edit Image Hovers, however, if a site admin makes the plugin's features available to lower privileged users through the 'Who Can Edit?' setting then this can be exploited by those users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug image-hover-effects-ultimate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 9.7.3
Patched Version
  • 9.8.0
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