MapPress Maps for WordPress, CVE-2023-4840

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-4840
Home page URL: Security reports for MapPress Maps for WordPress
Application: MapPress Maps for WordPress
Published on: Sep 12, 2023
Research Description: The MapPress Maps for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'mappress' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.88.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.88.5.
Status: vulnerable