Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In February 2024
The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to and including 12.3.15 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. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
The Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'create_view' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create views via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.0 via the 'icon' attribute used in Shortcodes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to include the contents of SVG files on the server, which can be leveraged for Cross-Site Scripting.
The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.0 due to unrestricted use of the 'header_tag' attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Recipe Notes in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
The Index Now plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'reset_form' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary site options via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
The Elementor Addons by Livemesh plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's widget URL parameters in all versions up to, and including, 8.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
The Starbox – the Author Box for Humans plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.7 via the action function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for subscribers to view plugin preferences and potentially other user settings.
The Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'save_view' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to modify the titles of arbitrary posts.
The Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'create_view' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to create form views.