The Content Pilot – Autoblogging & Affiliate Marketing Suite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and…
The Content Pilot – Autoblogging & Affiliate Marketing Suite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.2.4. This is due to the plugin extracting the HTML meta description from each remotely-fetched article (WPCP_Readability::parse_meta()), piping that value through the article template substitution and html_entity_decode() in WPCP_Module::insert_post(), and then calling wp_insert_post() after switching the current user to the configured campaign author (an Administrator with the unfiltered_html capability by default) — so no wp_kses_post sanitization is applied to the attacker-controlled HTML before it is persisted as post_content a
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Pluginever
- Product
- Content Pilot – Autoblogging & Affiliate Marketing Suite
- CVSS v3.1
- 5.4 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Exposure class
- Web platform
- NVD status
- Received
Why it ranks 14 (Routine)
- CVSS v3.1 5.4 medium
- Product class: web platform
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.