Promotion Slider <= 3.3.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-29440
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published May 22, 2022
Last Updated January 31, 2025
Researcher Ngo Van Thien
Description

Promotion Slider in versions up to and including 3.3.4 is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post metadata due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the function save_meta_data. This allows contributors and higher 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 promotion-slider (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.4
Patched Version
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