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Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security, CVE-2023-0992

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-0992

Published on
Jun 09, 2023
Research Description
The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 17.0.17 via the 'User-Agent' header. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions
max 17.0.18.
Status
vulnerable