SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager: Cross-site scripting
SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager 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
- SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager
- Plugin slug
seo-redirection-plugin- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 17, 2021
This CVE was published May 17, 2021 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager WordPress plugin before 6.4 did not sanitise the Redirect From and Redirect To fields when creating a new redirect in the dashboard, allowing high privilege users (even with the unfiltered_html disabled) to set XSS payloads
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N