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Cool Author Box – For Widget and Post Content, fbeb6eb681ba1e4d98291e58119ab2ce3efdce86

Published on
Jul 18, 2023
Research Description
Cool Author Box &#8211; For Widget and Post Content [hm-cool-author-box-widget] < 2.9.6 WordPress Cool Author Box - For Widget and Post Content Plugin <= 2.9.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) No patched version available. Rafie Muhammad (Patchstack) discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress Cool Author Box - For Widget and Post Content Plugin. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has not been known to be fixed yet.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.9.6.
Status
vulnerable