AcyMailing <= 11.1.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'customField[]' Parameter
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- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The AcyMailing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the customField[] parameter of the public frontusers::subscribe endpoint in versions up to, and including, 11.1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the acym_cleanVar() sanitizer, whose HTML-tag stripper only matches complete tags (requiring a closing '>'), together with SubscriberInsertion::replaceUserInformation() and the archive view template, which substitute the stored subscriber field value into the mail body and emit it without HTML encoding. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the online-archive URL for the poisoned subscriber, including administrators who click the plugin-generated link in the Subscribers → History screen.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- acyba AcyMailing – An Ultimate Newsletter Plugin and Marketing Automation Solution for WordPress
through 11.1.0
References 8
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/front/FrontViews/Archive/tmpl/view.php#L17
- browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/dynamics/subscriber/SubscriberInsertion.php#L159
- browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/Classes/FieldClass.php#L292
- browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/Core/wordpress/security.php#L122
- browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/Classes/UserClass.php#L1187
- browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/front/FrontControllers/FrontusersController.php#L69
- changeset?reponame=&old=3729031%40acymailing&new=3729031%40acymailing