WP Prayer <= 1.6.1 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24313
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published May 17, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Bastijn Ouwendijk
Description

The WP Prayer WordPress plugin before 1.6.2 provides the functionality to store requested prayers/praises and list them on a WordPress website. These stored prayer/praise requests can be listed by using the WP Prayer engine. An authenticated WordPress user with any role can fill in the form to request a prayer. The form to request prayers or praises have several fields. The 'prayer request' and 'praise request' fields do not use proper input validation and can be used to store XSS payloads.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-prayer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.2
Patched Version
  • 1.6.2
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