Advanced Views <= 3.9.6 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
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- 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 Advanced Views plugin for WordPress, which provides display layouts for the Gutenberg and Elementor page builders, is affected by this flaw. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a comment containing malicious scripts that run in the browsers of visitors who load the affected page, even before the comment is approved.
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The Advanced Views – Display Framework for Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This vulnerability is exploitable even against pending or unapproved comments, as the plugin's get_comment() lookup applies no approval-status filter, meaning a payload executes for any visitor loading an avf-layout block bound to the attacker's comment ID before the comment is ever reviewed.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- wplakeorg Advanced Views – Display Framework – Gutenberg/Elementor/Shortcode
through 3.9.6
References 5
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/acf-views/tags/3.9.6/src/Cpt/Data_Vendors/Wp/Fields/Comment/Comment_Content_Field.php#L27
- browser/acf-views/tags/3.9.6/src/Cpt/Data_Vendors/Wp/Fields/Comment/Comment_Content_Field.php#L50
- browser/acf-views/tags/3.9.6/src/Cpt/Data_Vendors/Base/Fields/Custom_Field.php#L70
- browser/acf-views/tags/3.9.7/src/Cpt/Data_Vendors/Wp/Fields/Comment/Comment_Content_Field.php