Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor <= 4.4.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

4.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-2967
CVSS 4.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 29, 2024
Last Updated June 14, 2024
Researcher Benedictus Jovan (aillesiM)

Description

The Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via form settings in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

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Vulnerability Details for Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug front-editor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.4.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.4.7
Patched Version
  • 4.4.8

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