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

CVE-2018-11486

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Advance Search for WooCommerce plugin 1.0.9 and earlier for WordPress. This plugin is vulnerable to a stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. A non-authenticated user can save the plugin settings and inject malicious JavaScript code in the Custom CSS textarea field, which will be loaded on every site page.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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