WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin: Cross-site scripting
WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin is affected by cross-site scripting. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin
- Plugin slug
woocommerce-affiliate- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 28, 2022
This CVE was published Mar 28, 2022 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin 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 WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin WordPress plugin before 4.16.4.5 does not have authorization and CSRF checks on a specific action handler, as well as does not sanitize its settings, which enables an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious XSS payloads into the settings page of the plugin.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N