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CVE-2022-32776: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-32776 is an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense WordPress plugin versions 1.31.1 and below. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on September 28, 2022, and affects the plugin's settings functionality (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists because the plugin does not properly sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup). The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 4.8 (medium) and is classified under CWE-79 (WPScan).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with administrative access 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).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.32.0 of the Advanced Ads plugin. Users are recommended to update to version 1.32.0 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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