Traffic Manager <= 1.4.5 - Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-42460
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published October 24, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Traffic Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check in versions up to, and including, 1.4.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug traffic-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.5
Patched Version
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