User Meta <= 2.4.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0376
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published May 9, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Niraj Mahajan
Description

The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.3 does not sanitise and escape the Form Name, as well as Shared Field Labels before outputting them in the admin dashboard when editing a form, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-meta (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.2
Patched Version
  • 2.4.3
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