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Smush – Optimize, Compress and Lazy Load Images, CVE-2022-1009

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2022-1009

Published on
May 30, 2022
Research Description
The Smush WordPress plugin before 3.9.9 does not sanitise and escape a configuration parameter before outputting it back in an admin page when uploading a malicious preset configuration, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting. For the attack to be successful, an attacker would need an admin to upload a malicious configuration file
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.0.1.
Status
vulnerable