External Media Plugin up to 1.0.35 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in External Media Plugin up to 1.0.35 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2022-3832. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in External Media Plugin up to 1.0.35 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected is an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The External Media WordPress plugin before 1.0.36 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

The weakness was disclosed 12/19/2022. The advisory is available at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-3832 since 11/02/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.0.36 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

Name

• External Media Plugin

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16
• 1.0.17
• 1.0.18
• 1.0.19
• 1.0.20
• 1.0.21
• 1.0.22
• 1.0.23
• 1.0.24
• 1.0.25
• 1.0.26
• 1.0.27
• 1.0.28
• 1.0.29
• 1.0.30
• 1.0.31
• 1.0.32
• 1.0.33
• 1.0.34
• 1.0.35

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