CVE-2022-1582

External Links in New Window / New Tab <= 1.42 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

mediumImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

6.1

CVSS Score

6.1

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

1.43

Patched in

624d

Time to patch

Description

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not properly escape URLs it concatenates to onclick event handlers, which makes Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks possible.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=1.42

PublishedMay 9, 2022

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginopen-external-links-in-a-new-window

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2490a51c-718f-463b-ab80-82d48deb2f1a?source=api-prod

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