Content Control: Cross-site scripting
Content Control is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Content Control
- Plugin slug
content-control- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 23, 2023
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Jan 23, 2023 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Content Control to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Content Control WordPress plugin before 1.1.10 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N