Coming Soon, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode By Dazzler <= 1.6.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24539
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 4, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Asif Nawaz Minhas - Patchstack Alliance

Description

The Coming Soon, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode By Dazzler WordPress plugin before 1.6.7 does not sanitise or escape its description setting when outputting it in the frontend when the Coming Soon mode is enabled, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

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Vulnerability Details for Coming Soon, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode By Dazzler

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug coming-soon-wp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.6.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.7

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