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CVE-2022-3823: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner WordPress plugin versions before 2.9.1 contained a security vulnerability identified as CVE-2022-3823. The vulnerability was discovered and publicly disclosed on November 3, 2022. This security issue affects the plugin's settings functionality, specifically impacting WordPress installations using the Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner plugin (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue with a CVSS score of 3.4 (low severity). The technical root cause stems from the plugin's failure to properly sanitize and escape certain settings parameters. This vulnerability is tracked under CWE-79 classification for Cross-Site Scripting issues (WPScan).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow high-privilege users such as administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, even in environments where the unfiltered_html capability is explicitly disallowed, such as in multisite WordPress setups (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.9.1 of the Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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