Vulnerability CVE-2024-8628


Published: 2024-09-24   Modified: 2024-09-25

Description:
The Popup, Optin Form & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber ?? MailOptin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'post-meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.70.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d64253b-5803-470d-81ba-d5629406b019?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3152552/mailoptin/trunk/src/core/src/EmailCampaigns/Shortcodes.php

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