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Simple Banner – An easy to use Banner/Bar/Notification/Announcement for the top or bottom of your website, CVE-2022-2515

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2022-2515

Published on
Sep 06, 2022
Research Description
The Simple Banner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `pro_version_activation_code` parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.11.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, including those without administrative capabilities when access is granted to those users, to inject arbitrary web scripts in page that will execute whenever a user role having access to "Simple Banner" accesses the plugin's settings.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.12.0.
Status
vulnerable