Vulnerability CVE-2022-4954


Published: 2023-10-20

Description:
The Waiting: One-click countdowns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Countdown name in versions up to, and including, 0.6.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ef5b0de-0b8b-4286-86ea-6dca0dbc1a52?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/waiting/trunk/waiting.php?rev=2826039

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