WP Voting Contest < 3.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0321
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published February 16, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew)
Description

The WP Voting Contest WordPress plugin before 3.0 does not sanitise and escape the post_id parameter before outputting it back in the response via the wpvc_social_share_icons AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-voting-contest (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0
Patched Version
  • 3.0
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