Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory <= 1.2.1 - Insufficient Escaping of Stored LDAP Values

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
CVE CVE-2023-4757
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published September 8, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Pedro José Navas Pérez
Description

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper LDAP value escaping in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on the supplied $user_field_data value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with access to edit their LDAP entries to inject malicious JavaScript that will access when a user accesses a page containing the data.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.2
Patched Version
  • 1.2.3
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