Description

The WP Circliful plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' shortcode attribute of the [circliful] shortcode and via multiple shortcode attributes of the [circliful_direct] shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, in the circliful_shortcode() function, the 'id' attribute value is concatenated directly into an HTML id attribute (line 285) without any escaping, allowing an attacker to break out of the double-quoted attribute and inject arbitrary HTML event handlers. Similarly, the circliful_direct_shortcode() function (line 257) outputs all shortcode attributes directly into HTML data-* attributes without escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weaknesses 1

References 9

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L241
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L257
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L263
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L285
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L241
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L257
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L263
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L285
• wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/030534e2-bf7d-42e4-94a1-986f629bea15?source=cve

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