WP RSS Aggregator <= 4.19.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

4.8
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24768
CVSS 4.8 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 1, 2021
Last Updated February 1, 2023
Researcher Huy Nguyen

Description

The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.19.2 does not properly sanitise and escape the URL to Blacklist field, allowing malicious HTML to be inserted by high privilege users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, which could lead to Cross-Site Scripting issues.

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Vulnerability Details for RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-rss-aggregator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.19.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.19.1
Patched Version
  • 4.19.2

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