VK Filter Search, CVE-2023-5705

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-5705
Home page URL: Security reports for VK Filter Search
Application: VK Filter Search
Published on: Oct 27, 2023
Research Description: The VK Filter Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'vk_filter_search' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1 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 2.3.2.
Status: vulnerable