Image Hover Effects Ultimate Plugin up to 9.8.1/9.8.4 on WordPress cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Image Hover Effects Ultimate Plugin up to 9.8.1/9.8.4 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-4207. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Image Hover Effects Ultimate Plugin up to 9.8.1/9.8.4 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Image Hover Effects Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several values that can be added to an Image Hover in versions 9.8.1 to 9.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. By default, the plugin only allows administrators access to edit Image Hovers, however, if a site admin makes the plugin's features available to lower privileged users through the 'Who Can Edit?' setting then this can be exploited by those users.

The weakness was disclosed 12/14/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-4207 since 11/29/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying the patch 4ba784e1a2a0cf02e8b8cbe3db7323735d7dedc9 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Image Hover Effects Ultimate Plugin

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• 9.8.0
• 9.8.1
• 9.8.2
• 9.8.3
• 9.8.4

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• open-source

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