underConstruction <= 1.20 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-1896
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published May 26, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Asif Nawaz Minhas
Description

The underConstruction WordPress plugin before 1.21 does not sanitise or escape the "Display a custom page using your own HTML" setting before outputting it, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiletred_html capability is disallowed.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug underconstruction (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.21
Patched Version
  • 1.21
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