WP Meta SEO <= 4.4.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via breadcrumbs

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-1093
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published May 2, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Victor Pasman
Description

The WP Meta SEO WordPress plugin before 4.4.7 does not sanitise or escape the breadcrumb separator before outputting it to the page, allowing a high privilege user such as an administrator to inject arbitrary javascript into the page even when unfiltered html is disallowed.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-meta-seo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.4.6
Patched Version
  • 4.4.7
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