CVE-2022-46855
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the WP Darko Responsive Pricing Table WordPress plugin versions 5.1.6 and below. The vulnerability was identified on December 11, 2022, and publicly disclosed on February 7, 2023. The issue affects users with contributor-level permissions or higher (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of the fields.title parameter in the plugin. This security flaw is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) from NIST with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Patchstack assigned it a slightly higher score of 6.5 (Medium) (NVD, WPScan).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This could enable malicious actors to inject harmful scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads that would execute when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.1.7 of the WP Darko Responsive Pricing Table plugin. Users are advised to update to version 5.1.7 or later to remediate this security issue. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-updates for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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