Perfmatters < 2.2.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2023-47877
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published November 21, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

The Perfmatters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an unknown parameter in all versions up to 2.2.0 (exclusive) due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug perfmatters (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.0
Patched Version
  • 2.2.0
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