WordPress Country Selector <= 1.6.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via AJAX call of check_country_selector

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2022-28290
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	March 30, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Cyber Security Works Pvt. Ltd

Description

The Country Selector Plugin is vulnerable Cross-Site Scripting. The payload executes whenever the user tries to access the country selector page with the specified payload as a part of the HTTP request. Versions up to 1.6.5 are affected.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wordpress-country-selector (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 1.6.5
Patched Version	1.6.6

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