SearchIQ – The Search Solution <= 3.8 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0780
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published April 11, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher cydave
Description

The SearchIQ WordPress plugin before 3.9 contains a flag to disable the verification of CSRF nonces, granting unauthenticated attackers access to the siq_ajax AJAX action and allowing them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping in the customCss parameter

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug searchiq (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8
Patched Version
  • 3.9
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