Popular Brand Icons - Simple Icons <= 2.7.7 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting

5.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24503
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published July 5, 2021
Last Updated February 1, 2023
Researcher apple502j

Description

The Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons WordPress plugin before 2.7.8 does not sanitise or validate some of its shortcode parameters, such as "color", "size" or "class", allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to set Cross-Site payload in them. A post made by a contributor would still have to be approved by an admin to have the XSS triggered in the frontend, however, higher privilege users, such as editor could exploit this without the need of approval, and even when the blog disallows the unfiltered_html capability.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-icons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.7.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.7.8
Patched Version
  • 2.7.8

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