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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2022-29432
CVE-2022-29432:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Multiple Authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities were discovered in the WordPress wpDataTables plugin versions 2.1.27 and below. The vulnerability affects users with administrator or higher user role privileges and involves vulnerable parameters including data-link-text, data-link-url, data, data-shortcode, and data-star-num (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) with a CVSS score of 3.4 (Low). It requires administrator privileges to exploit and allows malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website which will be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts that would be executed when visitors access the affected website. This could lead to redirects, unauthorized advertisements, and other potentially harmful HTML content being displayed to site visitors (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability was fixed in version 2.1.28 of the wpDataTables plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.1.28 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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