Stored cross-site scripting in WP Statistics - CVE-2019-12566
Published: June 24, 2019 / Updated: June 25, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18882
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12566
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: VeronaLabs
Affected software:
WP Statistics
WP Statistics
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the Page's title. A remote authenticated attacker with Editor role can create a page with title that contains malicious javascript code and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12566
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/commit/aec4359975344f75385ae1ec257575d8131d6ec2
- https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/commit/cda6dcaf123f4df1e01fbc819f47a98ca5c8ac0a
- https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/271
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/#developers