Simple Download Counter, CVE-2023-4838

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-4838
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Download Counter
Application: Simple Download Counter
Published on: Sep 09, 2023
Research Description: The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes like 'before' and 'after'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max 1.6.1.
Status: vulnerable