Kwayy HTML Sitemap: Cross-site scripting
Kwayy HTML Sitemap 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
- Kwayy HTML Sitemap
- Plugin slug
kwayy-html-sitemap- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 26, 2022
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Dec 26, 2022 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Kwayy HTML Sitemap to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Kwayy HTML Sitemap WordPress plugin before 4.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N